The activities of the Directorate include
1. Collection of Agriculture Statistics on regular basis and published
year wise
2. Agricultural Census on quinquinnal basis - Latest year of reference
2000-01
3. Cost of Cultivation of Important Crops - Annually
4. Economic Census - Latest year of reference 2005
5. Annual Survey of Industries
6. Index of Industrial Productions
7. Housing Statistics
8. Labour Statistics
9. Vital statistics - Civil Registration System
a) Data under Birth & Death Registration Act
b) Medical Certification of causes of Death
c) Spot check survey
10. Sample Registration
11. Wage Structure Survey
12. Prices Statistics
a) Computation of Consumer Price Index Numbers for industrial
workers and Agricultural labourers.Base
year 1970=100
b) Parity Index Numbers
c) Whole sale price Index Numbers
d) Prices of essential commodities
e) Dietary prices
f) Wholesale price for Market intelligence
13. National Sample Survey - Annual survey of N S S
14. State Income - computed sector wise - Annually
15. Evaluation Studies
16. Planning Co-ordination and Publication of Statistics
17. Surveys & Studies - Ad-hoc surveys of current interest (Survey
on Activity Status of persons in the Live Register of Employment Exchanges)
Besides this the following two publications are now being issued regularly
for official use utilizing the services of the small press (RISO) in
the Department.
1. EcoStat News
2. Price trend to essential - monthly commodities
