Published: 20th Jul, 2023
Context
The Ministry of Statistics is going to replace the existing Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES) by a ‘Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS)’ which has a broader mandate to review the framework and results of all surveys conducted under the aegis of the National Statistical Office (NSO).
About the order:
- Background: The government constituted a new internal oversight mechanism for official data via forming a Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES) set up in late 2019.
- About the new Committee:
- As per the update, a new committee ‘SCoS’ will have 10 official members, and four non-official members who are eminent academics.
- The panel can have up to 16 members.
- Need for a new committee: The last round of household surveys on consumption expenditure and employment citied ‘data quality issues’.
- Significance:
- The ‘SCoS’ terms of reference include the identification of data gaps that need to be filled by official statistics, along with an appropriate strategy to plug those gaps.
- It has also been mandated to explore the use of administrative statistics to improve data outcomes.
Present scenario:
- The Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES), which had 28 members, included 10 non-official members.
- The panel was mandated to review the framework for economic indicators pertaining to the industrial sector, the services sector and the labour force statistics.
- This meant that their purview was limited to datasets like the Periodic Labour Force Survey, the Annual Survey of Industries, the Index of Industrial Production and the Economic Census.
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