Consumer Spending Report Not to be Issued Due to Quality Issues

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementations (MoSPI) issued that the Consumer Spending report would not be issued on account of the wide gap between the actual data and data collected by other administrative authorities as well as in the data for the level of consumption.

Crux of the Matter

1. The Government has decided to dump the Consumer Spending Report for FY 2017-18 due to issues in data quality.

2. There have been recommendations in the improvement of the survey methodology and quality on a ‘concurrent basis‘ so as to facilitate future surveys. Ministry is mulling over the years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 for the next Consumer Spending survey.

3. Consumer Spending Surveys are conducted every 5 years. The previous survey was conducted in 2011-12 as the 2009-10 survey was not an appropriate base year due to drought and economic adversaries.

Curiopedia

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is a ministry of Government of India. concerned with coverage and quality aspects of statistics released. The surveys conducted by the Ministry are based on scientific sampling methods. Read More

Curated Coverage

1. Business Standard – Govt scraps NSO’s consumer expenditure survey over ‘data quality’

2. India Today – Govt junks survey on consumer spending over quality issues

3. NDTV – Consumer Spending Report On Hold Over “Data Quality Issues”: Government

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