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Ruchi Jain
Ruchi Jain is an Associate Fellow at the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre. A trained demographer, she specializes in public health, gender, reproductive and sexual health, and migration. At NCAER, she has contributed to many projects, including HDPI, IDRC, DFI, and Rural Housing.
She earned her M.Phil and PhD in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, where she developed a deep understanding of the intersection between population dynamics and health.
Dr. Jain has extensive experience in survey design, data analysis, and reporting, utilising large-scale datasets such as NFHS and IHDS. She has authored numerous publications and presented her findings at prestigious international conferences. Her academic achievements include being a UGC-NET fellowship awardee, receiving the JR Rele Award for the best research paper, and winning the Best Poster Award at the 2022 Population Association of America Meeting.
Jaya Koti
Jaya Koti is a Research Analyst at NCAER, working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) Survey and India Human Development (IHDS)-III. She holds a Master’s Degree in Rural Development from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She has worked on various projects at the institution, like “Under Nutrition and Public Policy in India”, and the “India Human Development Survey”, among others. She has a good understanding of data systems, with expertise in preparation, cleaning, analysis and presenting data. She has several years of hands-on experience in the use of large and complex data sets such as the NSS, NFHS and IHDS. She primarily works with different statistical softwares and operating systems, including STATA, SPSS and CSPro.