-The Indian Express The immediate cause for suspecting the genuineness of survey responses is the divergence in the estimates of households with Access to Toilets. Differences between survey estimates and comparable data from administrative sources are not surprising. The survey data are believed to present a more realistic view, especially when it relates to access to public goods and services. Generally, the distrust is more on administrative data from implementing agencies. While...
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Survey data and government claims need not always match -Himanshu
-Livemint.com Let’s not discredit the findings of statistical surveys that are conducted among real respondents The uncomfortable truth that emerged from the leaked report of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) is that rural poverty increased substantially between 2011-12 and 2017-18 for the first time in five decades. That this happened during a period of claimed high growth should have led to more research on what went wrong. Instead, there have been attempts...
More »Claim versus Reality: Has India become open defecation free? -Suvidya Patel
-Macroscan.org On October 2, 2019, Prime Minister Modi proudly proclaimed that India, which was home to the largest number of people in the world not having Access to Toilets, has become open defecation free. Please click here to read more. ...
More »India is not REALLY open-defecation free, but again, people may have lied: NSO report
-Financial Express An overwhelming number of Indians have claimed that they don’t have Access to Toilets, poking holes in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion of India having become open-defecation free under Swachh Bharat. But the NSO, which conducted the survey, also said that the respondents could not be fully trusted, and that they may have lied to underreport the Access to Toilets. About 30% of rural households lacked Access to Toilets...
More »Open defecation-free India: National Statistical Office survey debunks Swachh Bharat claims -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Only 71% of rural households had Access to Toilets at a time the Centre was claiming 95% The latest National Statistical Office (NSO) survey on sanitation debunked the claims of an open defecation-free or ODF India made by the Centre’s flagship Swachh Bharat scheme, although it did record great progress in toilet access and use in rural areas. The survey, released on Saturday, showed that about 71% of rural households had...
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