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National Statistics Day – 29 June
July 1 , 2018
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- The National Statistics Day is celebrated every year on June 29 in India to create public awareness about the importance of statistics in socio-economic planning and policy formulation.
- The 2018 theme is “Quality Assurance in Official Statistics”.
- The day also acknowledges the notable contribution of Late Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in fields of statistics, statistical system, and economic planning.
- In 1933, he had founded the first Indian statistical journal Sankhya. He is also best remembered for the statistical measure of Mahalanobis distance.
- He had founded the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys.
- The Union Government had designated June 29 as National Statistics Day in 2007 in recognition of notable contributions made by Late Professor PC Mahalanobis in the fields of statistics.
- The Second Five-Year Plan had relied on Mahalanobis’s mathematical description of Indian economy.
- This plan had encouraged the development of heavy industry in India and later became known as Nehru-Mahalanobis model or Basic Industry strategy of economic growth.
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