| Dr. Rajesh Shukla is a
Statistician, specilised
in sample survey and data analysis. As a Senior Fellow (Chief Statistician)
at NCAER, he has been involved for over 15 years in
primary and secondary data based socio-economic studies
(baseline, impact and longitudinal) and has executed
over 25 national level studies covering a range of
topics such as household income, expenditure and saving;
tourism, science & technology, public understanding
of science and energy.
He has authored seven
books, more than 25 research reports, a number of
research papers and popular articles. Some of his
distinctive publications includes - First India
Science Report (released by Prime Minister Dr.
Manmohan Singh), How India Earns, Spends and
Saves (released by Sri Montek Singh Ahluwalia),
Domestic Tourism Survey, Tourism Satellite of India, The
Great Indian Middle Class, The Great Indian Market and
The Next Urban Frontier: Twenty Cities to Watch (released
by Mr. Nandan Nilekani). In the context of
developing countries like India, the adopted statistical
and methodological framework in these studies is an
important contribution.
He has been a regular visitor to London School of
Economics (LSE) undertaking collaborative research on
"Construction of Global Indicators of Science and
Technology" with Dr. M. Bauer of LSE since 2002.
They are currently engaged in compiling, integrating and analyzing
GESIS longitudinal datasets (EB 63.1, CCEB 2002.3, EB
55.2, EB 38.1, EB 31, EB 28, EB 10A and EB 7) from 1977
to 2005. In November, 2007,
he had organised (with Martin Bauer) a workshop titled 'Towards Indicators of Scientific Culture'
hosted by Royal
Society (UK) where 25 researchers from Europe, North and
South America, India, China, Korea, Japan, South Africa,
and Australia participated.
He worked as Technical Advisor to several reputed
national and international institutions such as United
Nations Committee on Tourism Statistics, WTO, Spain;
McKinsey Global Institute, Washington; Government of
Sultanate of Oman, Asian Development Bank, Manila, etc.
He is a member of Working Group on 65th round (July 2008 -
June 2009) of National Sample Survey (NSS) and Expert
Committee of Baseline Survey of Minority Districts, Ministry of Minority Affairs.
Besides others, he is currently leading three major
studies. One, 3rd Census of Handloom Weavers, which is a
mammoth and complex exercise involving
collection of primary information from over 2.5 million
weaver households of the country. Second, he is leading
the Urban Bank Customer survey which is aimed to
understand the saving behavior. Third, he is undertaking
a collaborative research with Yale Centre for Customer
Insights (YCCI), Yale School of Management, on the
changing consumption and investment behavior of China
and India within the broader context of their rapidly
changing societies. |
