The paper provides an overview of the situation with respect to the quality and comparability of data commonly used in development analysis. A section each is devoted to a discussion of macroeconomic (i.e. national income and its components, savings and investment, exports and imports) data, demography (population, life expectancy, fertility and mortality, nutrition and health, labour force, employment and unemployment), poverty and income distribution, validation and cross-checking of data from different sources. The discussion is illustrated with examples, drawn mainly from India. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations for the improvement of data.
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