Working with the ASI: A Data Guide
Megha Patnaik & Smriti Bansal
The definitive guide to downloading, cleaning, and harmonizing India’s Annual Survey of Industries. Each post covers one piece of the puzzle — by the end, you’ll have a complete pipeline from raw files to a clean panel of 390,000 factories.
| # | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting the data: how to actually download ASI microdata (it’s easier than you think) | Coming soon |
| 2 | Inside the questionnaire: what does India ask its factories? | Coming soon |
| 3 | The two ASIs: why census and sample sector matter and most people get it wrong | Coming soon |
| 4 | Why your ASI aggregates don’t match the government’s: a guide to multipliers | Coming soon |
| 5 | Tracking a factory through time: the nightmare of ASI identifiers | Coming soon |
| 6 | When industries change names: surviving three NIC concordances | Coming soon |
| 7 | What do Indian factories actually produce? Decoding the products block | Coming soon |
| 8 | Employment variables: workers, employees, contract labour, and mandays | Coming soon |
| 9 | Wages and compensation: what’s in the emoluments block | Coming soon |
| 10 | Coal, diesel, and electricity: parsing the fuel block | Coming soon |
| 11 | Inputs and outputs: raw materials, gross output, GVA, NVA | Coming soon |
| 12 | Making it real: which deflators to use and why it matters more than you think | Coming soon |
| 13 | How much capital does an Indian factory have? Building capital stock from scratch | Coming soon |
| 14 | Three states that appeared overnight: handling India’s 2000 bifurcations | Coming soon |
| 15 | The district that split seven ways: geographic harmonization | Coming soon |
| 16 | The night the taxes changed: what GST did to the data | Coming soon |
| 17 | Demonetisation in the data: spotting the red flags | Coming soon |
| 18 | The missing factories: what COVID did to the ASI | Coming soon |
| 19 | One script to rule them all: the complete ASI cleaning pipeline | Coming soon |