Manual for Integrated District Planning - National Institute of Rural ...

Manual for Integrated District Planning
Key Short description Remarks
5 A About people This is a key describing the subject matter
of the data. For instance, BPL lists are
about people, water supply data is about
services or infrastructure and allocations
to Panchayats is about money.
B
C
D
About services or
infrastructure
About the environment and
natural resources
About money
6 Presentation of data This key describes the form in which data
would be presented.
A
B
C
Spatial/GIS maps
Description in text form
Numerical
7 A Full data This describes whether data is sourced
from all units of the subject matter
considered or based on sample
assessments. For instance, full data on
incomes (however sketchy) is available
in respect of all families when the BPL
list is prepared. It would be classified as
‘7-A’. Data on district income collected
from surveys conducted by the National
Sample Survey would be classified as
‘7-B’.
B
Sample data
8 A Stock data This key describes the mobile nature of
the data item. For instance, Allocations
of funds would be described as ‘Stock’
data, whereas data about releases of
funds would be categorised as ‘flow’
data.
B
Flow data
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