With a move towards increasing the frequency and expanding the diversity of datasets, the government is now focusing towards deriving more accurate district-level estimates, Saurabh Garg, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) said on Thursday.

Speaking at the Delhi School of Economics, Garg said that the central government is already working with the state governments as the combination of revamped datasets of the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) and the monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) will be “extremely useful” in calculating the District Domestic Product (DDP), which measures the economic output for a district.

“ASUSE includes both manufacturing and services sectors. It’s across the economy, all sectors get covere

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