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    Demolishing the house that Mahalanobis built

    A recent paper published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is an excellent account of the malaise that has gripped the nation’s statistical system 

    Manas Chakravarty
    July 10, 2023 / 09:55 IST
    Demolishing the house that Mahalanobis built

    The foremost example of the dismal state of our statistical system is the fact that the census, which had been held every ten years since 1881, was not only not held in 2021, but there is no indication of when it will be held

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