Context:
Recently, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) launched the eSankhyiki Portal.
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- The eSankhyiki Portal was officially launched on National Statistics Day by the Chairman of the 16th Finance Commission of India (Dr. Arvind Panagariya), in a function held on June 29.
- The Ministry has developed the eSankhyiki portal to provide real-time inputs for planners, policy-makers, researchers and the public.
- The objective of this portal is to establish a comprehensive data management and sharing system for ease of dissemination of official statistics in the country.
- The initiative is in sync with the theme of National Statistics Day (June 29) – ‘Use of data for Decision making’ as ease of access to data is the prerequisite for evidence-based decision-making.
- The eSankhyiki Portal has two modules namely:
(a) Data Catalogue Module
- This module catalogues the major data assets of the Ministry in one place for ease of access. It allows users to search within datasets, including within tables, and download data of interest to increase its value and re-usability.
The module has seven data products
- National Accounts Statistics
- Consumer Price Index
- Index of Industrial Production
- Annual Survey of Industries
- Periodic Labour Force Survey
- Household Consumption Expenditure Survey
- Multiple Indicator Survey.
(b) Macro Indicators Module:
- This module offers time series data of key macro indicators with features for filtering and visualizing data, enabling ease of access for the users.
- The module also allows users to download custom datasets, visualizations and share them through APIs (application programming interface), thereby increasing the re-usability of data.
The first phase of the module includes four major products of MoSPI:
- National Accounts Statistics
- Consumer Price Index
- Index of Industrial Production
- Annual Survey of Industries
- It encompasses the data of the last ten years and currently hosts more than 1.7 million records