O. P. Sharma is an Associate Fellow at the NCAER, specialising in primary data collection, field management, field training, coding and editing. He is currently the project coordinator for the India Human Development Survey-II. Some of the other studies he has worked on include: Fertiliser Consumption and Quality Seeds, Human Development Profile for India 2004-05, Rural Economic and Demographic Change in India and Third Census of Handloom Weavers. Between 1988 and 2007, he headed the NCAER Field Office at Bhopal recruiting, training and supervising field staff and editing primary data.