Okabe, Jun-ichi; Bakshi, Aparajita - In: Journal 3 (2013) 2, pp. 14-53
This study deals with a new statistical domain, that of the village (or gram) panchayat. This domain has emerged in rural India as a consequence of the decentralisation programme initiated by the 73rd Amendment to the Indian Constitution. The work of the Expert Committee on Basic Statistics for...