Om Prakash Sharma

Om Prakash Sharma

Consultant

O. P. Sharma is a Consultant at the NCAER, specializing in primary data collection, field management, field training, coding and editing. He is currently working in the project ‘India Human Development Survey-III. Some of the other studies he has worked on include: Fertilizer Consumption and Quality Seeds, India Human Development Survey-I 2004-05, Rural Economic and Demographic Change in India, India Human Development Survey-II 2011-12 and Third Census of Handloom Weavers. Between 1988 and 2005, he headed the NCAER Field Office at Bhopal recruiting, training and supervising field staff and editing primary data

POLICY BRIEF | IHDS Website
A Glass Half Full: Changes in Standard of Living since 2012 
Sonalde Desai | Manjistha Banerji | Debasis Barik | Dinesh Tiwari | O.P. Sharma
2020

SURVEY-TEAM MEMBER  |  NCAER
Wage Employment and Migration 
2017

SURVEY-TEAM MEMBER   |   NCAER
The Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Act on Household Welfare 
2015

REPORT  I  Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Telecom Sector in India: A Decadal Profile
B Bhandari, P R Goel  and T K Thomas
June 2012

SURVEY-PROJECT COORDINATOR     |    NCAER-University of Maryland
India Human Development Survey-II 
2011-2012

REPORT | NCAER
Indian Youth: Demographics and Readership
Rajesh Shukla,  Palash Baruah,  Joydeep Goswami,  Rupinder Kaur,  Preeti Kakkar, Lokesh Dwivedi,  Harsha T. Dutt,  Pallavi Kalita,  K A Siddiqui,  Prabir Kumar Ghosh,  Om Prakash Sharma,  Rachna Sharma, K.J. Khan
2010

REPORT | NCAER
Handloom Census of India 2009-10
Rajesh Shukla,  K A Siddiqui,  P.K Roy,  Prabir Kumar Ghosh,  Rakesh Kumar Srivastava,  Rachna Sharma, Preeti Kakkar,  Om Prakash Sharma,  K.J. Khan, Sandeep Mishra, Lokesh Dwivedi, Amit Sharma
2010

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (NORTH EAST)  |  NCAER
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
2009-10

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (NORTH EAST)  |  NCAER
National Youth Readership Survey
2009

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (NORTH EAST)  |  NCAER
Third Census of Handloom Weavers and Issuing Identity Cards
2008-10

SURVEY-REGIONAL  |  NCAER
Deployment & Professional Competence of Para Teachers
2008-09

SURVEY-TEAM MEMBER  |  NCAER
India Human Development Survey
2004-05

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Evaluation of Kisan Credit Card
2004

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
India Science Report
2004

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Domestic Tourism Expenditure study
2001-02

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Market Information Survey of Households
2001-02

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Evaluation survey of National Programme on Improved Chulha
2001-02

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Evaluation of Energy Parks
2001

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Rural Economic and Demographic Change in India
2000-01

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Study of Spurious Automotive Components, Market Size and Consequences
1999-2000

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Market Information Survey of Households
1998-99  

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Market Information Survey of Households
1997-98

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Impact Evaluation of Operation Flood Programme on Rural Dairy Sector
1998

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Census of Handicraft Artisan
1995-97

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Human Development Profile for India
1993-96

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Study on RRA/PRA Approach in the National Survey
1995

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Evaluation survey of National Programme on Improved Chulha
1992-93

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Study on RRA/PRA Approach in the National Survey
1992

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Evaluation Survey on Household Biogas Plants
1991-92

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Fertilizer Consumption and Quality seeds
1989-90

SURVEY-REGIONAL INCHARGE (MP)  |  NCAER
Baseline Study of Operation Flood Area
1988-89

Book Chapter | NCAER
India Human Development Survey?”. In Sonalde Desai, Prem Vashishtha and Omkar Joshi (eds.) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: A Catalyst for Rural Transformation, 165-171.
O.P. Sharma | Dinesh Tiwari
2015

  • Delivered lecture on “Data Collection and Cleaning” as a resource person in AICTE sponsored FDP on ‘Decision making using data analysis conducted by JIMS Rohini, Delhi on 25 August 2020.
  • Co-author of the paper “Who are India’s educational migrants?” which is selected for the poster presentation in the 2021 virtual PAA Annual meeting.
  • Co-author of the paper “Gone and Forgotten? Constructing Fertility Histories and Sources of Bias”, which is selected for the paper presentation in the 2021 virtual PAA Annual meeting.
  • Presented on “Primary Data Collection: Challenges and Strategies” at National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, July 23, 2018
  • Co-author of the paper “Measurement Errors in Fertility History and Their Implication for Fertility and Mortality Estimates”, which is selected for the poster presentation in the 2017 PAA Annual meeting, Chicago.

Education

  • MS Office Computer Diploma, 1992
  • MA Economics, Agra University, 1980
  • BA Economics, Agra University, 1978

Work Experience

  • September 2024Present: Consultant, NCAER
  • April 2022July 2024: Fellow, NCAER
  • March 1996March 2022: Associate Fellow, NCAER
  • 1993-February 1996: Research Associate, NCAER
  • August 1988-1993: Investigator, NCAER
  • January 1987-April 1988: Research Assistant, Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow