Household income, assets, work and access to services, measured the same way everywhere
Bharat Survey is a socio economic survey agency in India for government departments, development authorities, CSR foundations and researchers who need reliable household data on income, assets, employment, education, health access and scheme coverage. We design the sample, list households on the ground, interview with an offline Android app that records GPS and time for every visit, back-check a share of interviews, and hand over a documented dataset your analysts can trust.
Most socio-economic surveys combine the same building blocks. Keeping definitions close to national surveys makes results comparable.
The survey is the visible part. The quality is decided in design and supervision.
We start from Census 2011 enumeration blocks or villages, updated with LGD codes, and calculate sample size for the smallest area where you need a separate estimate, including design effect.
Old frames miss new households. Enumerators list dwellings in each selected village or block, and households are selected from that fresh list.
Questionnaires with skip logic, range checks and consistency rules run offline. Every record stores GPS, time and duration.
A fixed share of households is re-interviewed on key questions by supervisors. Outliers and short interviews are reviewed before acceptance.
Survey weights, estimates with standard errors, codebook, questionnaires and a methodology note arrive with the clean data.
Labour market surveys come up again and again in state and board tenders. Three common setups.
India already has large national household surveys: the Periodic Labour Force Survey and Household Consumption Expenditure Survey run by MoSPI's National Statistics Office, and the Socio Economic and Caste Census of 2011 run by the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. The SECC socio economic caste census data is still used for identifying beneficiaries in several schemes.
A commissioned survey should add what those sources cannot: smaller areas, a specific population, a scheme-specific question, or a more recent picture. We check what the national data already answers before recommending a sample, so you do not pay to re-measure something that is published.
Household, scheme and facility surveys for departments.
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Learn moreStraight answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.
It is a household survey that measures the economic and social conditions of a population: members, education, work, income or consumption, assets, housing, and access to services. Governments and funders use it for planning, targeting and as a baseline for programmes.
It depends on the indicators, how precise estimates must be, and the smallest area needing a separate estimate. A state-level estimate can rest on a few thousand households; separate district estimates multiply that. We share the calculation, including design effect, before fieldwork.
Only when the terms of reference require it for policy analysis. Questions are neutral, answers are voluntary, data is reported in aggregate, and it is never used to target or profile individuals.
Yes. We can digitise a department's prescribed schedule exactly, including its codes, and run fieldwork to that format. Suggested changes, if any, are raised in writing during the pilot.
Data hosting location, access control and retention are stated in writing in each proposal, so the department can check them against its own data policy before award.
Share the population, areas and indicators. We will reply with a sample design and quotation.
