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Statistical year book India 2016
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), now known as National Sample Survey Office, is an organization under the Union Ministry of Statistics.
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), now known as National Sample Survey Office, is an organization under the Union Ministry of Statistics. Established in 1950, it is the largest organisation in India conducting regular socio-economic surveys. Employees of NSSO belong to Indian Statistical service (appointment through UPSC) and Subordinate statistical service from Staff Selection Commission).
NSSO has four divisions: Survey Design and Research Division (SDRD), Field Operations Division (FOD), Data Processing Division (DPD) and Co-ordination and Publication Division (CPD). Barring, CPD, the other are headed by Additional Director General. SDRD located at Kolkata is responsible for planning of the survey, finalization of sample design, schedules, instructions and tabulation programme, report writing, etc.
DPD with its headquarters at Kolkata process the data collected through socio-economic surveys through its six Data Processing Centres across the country. The Field Operations Division (FOD) is responsible for collection of data from the field on various surveys of the NSSO.
The FOD with head quarters at New Delhi functions through a network of 6 Zonal Offices, 49 Regional Offices and 116 Sub-Regional Offices spread throughout the length and breadth of the country. CPD coordinates the activities of all the Divisions.
NSSO functions under the overall direction of National Statistical Commission (NSC). The National Statistical Commission has the requisite independence and autonomy of decision making in the collection; processing and the publication of NSS data.
The autonomy includes the choice of subjects or items on which data have to be collected in a given field of investigation or in a given period, the frequency with which the data on any item are to be collected, the preparatory or pilot work to be undertaken on different subjects, the sample design to be adopted, the tabulation to be prepared, the form in which the data are to be collected and processed and the analysis and publication of results.
Every year NSSO conducts not only large-scale sample surveys in the form of NSS Rounds covering a variety of socio-economic topics, but also other important surveys in the field of Industrial Statistics (Annual Survey of Industries), Agricultural Statistics and Retail Prices.
