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 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.
Prabir Kumar Ghosh is a Senior Fellow at NCAER. Currently, he is involved in coordinating all-India level survey work and analysis of large scale primary data. His research interests include development economics, human development, income, expenditure, poverty & nutrition, demography, and budgetary analysis on social sector & poverty alleviation programs.
Debasis Barik is a Senior Fellow, at the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre. He is a demographer by training with a specialization in economic demography and ageing. He has worked on public health, migration, gender, and intergenerational well-being. However, more than a decade of work at NCAER has diversified his research career, now spanning the intersection of demography, economics, and human development. Dr. Barik’s current research focuses broadly on the adaptation process of Indian households to environmental threats.
In recent years, Dr. Barik has focused extensively on the design and implementation of large household surveys. As a member of the core team for the India Human Development Survey – Wave 3, he has helped design questions slated to be administered to nearly 50,000 households nationwide, taking into account the geographical and cultural diversity of India. He has also developed tools for remote monitoring of data and quality control.
His research has been published in journals of global repute, including World Development, Feminist Economics, and Health Economics. He has served on the expert group of National Health Accounts (NHA), formed by the National Health System Resource Centre (NHSRC), Government of India, to institutionalize the NHA estimates annually. He also contributes opinion articles to English language dailies.
Dinesh Kumar Tiwari is a Fellow at NCAER. He is an anthropologist with rich experience of primary data collection for large-scale social surveys, qualitative interviews, and experimental data collection, with a special focus on field management, monitoring and supervision, and ensuring data quality. He is part of the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), and is currently engaged in co-ordination, trainings, supervision, data collection and field management for Round 3 of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) project. He has earlier also undertaken these tasks for the IHDS round II (2011-12) and Migration Survey (IHDS-II-M). He has also worked on conceptualising and implementing experimental research for the Delhi Metropolitan Area Study (DMAS) and the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey (DCVTS). Prior to joining NCAER, he has worked with various reputed research organisations like the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, the World Bank, and the Center de Sciences Humaines, Embassy of France (Palanpur Study). His areas of interest include migration studies, ethnographic research, public health, and experimental economics.
