Recent rounds of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) don’t let us track poverty-level trends, but they do confirm a livelihood crisis. For a clearer picture of deprivation ...

Like health and education, agriculture is a responsibility of the Centre and States to ensure sustainable growth ...

The CMS on Education, set to run from April to June 2025, aims to gather vital information on education-related parameters, ...

Transport costs represented 11.6 per cent of total expenditure, slightly lower than the 12 per cent recorded in the previous survey. The smallest portion of household budgets was spent on ...

Consumer spending is an indispensable pillar of the U.S. economy, and in 2023, the typical American household spent about $77 ...

The seminar, scheduled for April 8-9, 2025, will be hosted at Goa University, Panaji, Goa, marking a significant academic event that brings together researchers, policymakers, and statisticians from ...

Among U.S. adults without diabetes, the use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) increased from 2018 to ...

Having a child is daunting for several reasons, and costs are top of mind for many Americans. The latest LendingTree study ...

A new nationwide survey by the ... has remained the largest expenditure item,” it said. Housing and utilities collectively cornered 10.6 percent of the total household budget during the pandemic.

The caste survey report was submitted to chief minister Siddaramaiah by Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes chairman K Jayaprakash Hegde on February 29 last year.

Monetary policy is forward-looking and dependent on policymakers’ economic outlook. When the outlook is deemed highly ...