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The Hindu
5 days ago
- Business
- The Hindu
Surveys on domestic tourism expenditure and national household travel to commence from July
National Statistics Office will be commencing its nationwide Domestic Tourism Expenditure Survey (DTES) and National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) from July. The survey will be conducted from July 2025 to June 2026. National Statistics Office is collecting socio-economic data from the households as part of the 80th round of the National Sample Survey. The main objective of the DTES survey was to collect the detailed expenditure and related information on domestic overnight tours, as well as information on domestic same-day trips made by the household members. The main objective of the NHTS survey was to collect the data based on the Ministry of Railways' requirements on where, when and why people travel within the country. The survey results will be used to improve public transportation system, infrastructure planning, and making policy decisions and developments in the country. Inaugurating a regional training conference, Director of National Statistics Office (Field Operations Division), Madurai, G. Vishnu Raj spoke about the importance of quality data collection of the surveys. Assistant Director of National Statistics Office (Field Operations Division), Madurai, L. Palaniappan; Assistant Director of National Statistics Office (Field Operations Division), Virudhunagar, V. Rethinam; Assistant Director Directorate of Economics and Statistics Madasamy, Senior Statistical Officer, Madurai, Padmavati and Senior Statistical Officer, Madurai, Roop Singh Gurjar were present Qualified and trained enumerators will be engaged for data collection using hand held devices equipped with E-Sigma Software. Assistant Directors and In-Charge officers, Statistical officers, Survey Enumerators and other officials from Madurai, Virudhunagar, Thanjavur and Tirunelveli Sub Regional Office participated in the conference.
India Gazette
12-06-2025
- Business
- India Gazette
CPI Inflation down to 2.82% in May 2025, lowest after February 2019
ANI 12 Jun 2025, 17:43 GMT+10 New Delhi [India], June 12 (ANI): Consumer Price Index (CPI) or year-on-year inflation for the month of May 2025 declined by 34 basis points to 2.82 per cent, the lowest year-on-year inflation after February 2019.A sharp decline of 79 basis points is observed in food inflation in May compared to April 2025. The food inflation in May 2025 is the lowest after October significant decline in inflation is mainly because of decline in prices of Pulses & products, Vegetables, Fruits, Cereals & products, Households goods & services, Sugar & confectionary and Egg and the favourable base inflation in rural sector is observed at 2.59 per cent in May, 2025 as compared to 2.92 per cent in April 2025. Whereas the headline Urban inflation decline from 3.36 per cent in April to 3.07 per cent in inflation for May was observed at 3.16 per cent as compared with 3.06 per cent in in education was observed at 4.34 per cent in May as compared with 4.13 per cent in April. Combined Health inflation for urban and rural areas in May was recorded at 4.34 per cent in May versus 4.25 per cent in transport and communication sector inflation for rural and urban areas also rose from 3.67 percent in April to 3.85 percent in May combined fuel and light inflation was, however, recorded lower at 2.78 per cent in May as compared with 2.92 per cent in price data for collating the CPI figures are collected from 1114 urban Markets and 1181 villages covering all States/UTs through personal visits by field staff of the Field Operations Division of NSO, MoSPI on a weekly roster. During the month of May 2025, NSO collected prices from 100 per cent of villages and 98.6 per cent of urban markets, while the market-wise prices reported therein were 88.9 per cent for rural and 92.7 per cent for urban areas. (ANI)
