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1Īlthough AWI is an important source of wage data in rural India for studying long-term trends of agricultural wages and rural poverty, AWI data have serious limitations, as noted by several authors (e.g., Rao 1972, Jose 1988, Ghanekar 1997, Himanshu 2005, Chavan and Bedamatta 2006). AWI is probably the only published source available to researchers that provides continuous and comprehensive data on agricultural wages in the country. AWI data have been published in the monthly journal, Agricultural Situation in India, and in the annual publication, Agricultural Wages in India, since 1951–52. Keywords: agricultural wage, missing data, district-level analysis, database of the Indian economy.Īgricultural Wages in India (hereinafter abbreviated as AWI) are agricultural wage data by district and type of farm operation collected by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of India.
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As changes in reporting centres have a large impact on inter-year dynamics of reported district-level wages, we recommend retaining the same reporting centres over several years in order to improve the quality of the AWI. Through controlling for fixed effects associated with reporting centres and farm operations, we show that it is possible to utilise the AWI data as a source of district-level monthly wage variation without discarding districts with frequent missing data.
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We discuss the underlying reasons for these limitations and attempt to address the problems. *Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Fellow, University of Tokyo, We present an overview of the limitations of the agricultural wage data published as Agricultural Wages in India (AWI). A Note on the Reliability of Agricultural Wage Data in India: Reconciliation of Monthly AWI Data for District-Level Analysis