The paradox of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use in India: An artefact of survey design? Sonalde Desai Santanu Pramanik Bijay Chouhan

Measuring Women’s Empowerment in the Global South Sonalde Desai Feinian Chen, Shilpa Reddy, Amy McLaughlin

Over the past two decades, we have seen an explosion in research on the topic of women’s empowerment and its related dimensions, yet there remains much to be done in terms of clarifying conceptual pathways and best practices in measurement. This review traces the intellectual...   Read More

Coverage and Nonresponse Bias in Telephone Surveys during the COVID-19 Lockdown in India Santanu Pramanik Bijay Chouhan Manjistha Banerji Dinesh Kumar Tiwari Sonalde Desai Reem Ashraf, Neerad Deshmukh

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, telephone surveys have been used extensively for carrying out studies on health knowledge, morbidity, and mortality surveillance. In order to understand the extent of different sources of non-observation errors in telephone surveys, we compare the distributions of units...   Read More

Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India Pallavi Choudhuri Santanu Pramanik Sonalde Desai

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent nationwide lockdown in India that began on March 25, 2020, caused a major disruption in the labour market, leading to the widespread loss of livelihoods and food insecurity. The findings from a telephonic survey of a representative sample of...   Read More

Understanding school attendance: The missing link in “Schooling for All” Manjistha Banerji Kopal Mathur

India is close to its goal of achieving 100 % school enrolment for children in the age group of 5–16 years. However, this does not correspond with universal school attendance. Not all children who are enrolled attend school regularly. Enrolment is, at best only “nominal”...   Read More