Social Statistics
Portfolio of Work
EEF Database, NPD Analysis and Data Archive
EEF is an independent charity aims to raise the attainment of disadvantaged children in primary and secondary schools in England. In this light, different projects have been conducted in order to evaluate new interventions directly or indirectly involving pupils through their educational attainment. My role is to support the analysis of archive of all EEF projects data provided to Durham University. This data comprises randomized control trials in education.
Papers
- Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?. The Journal of Experimental Education, 1-15.
- Understanding uncertainty in effect size calculation for multisite education trials
- Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference for Education Trials
Mass media and Family planning
This study examines the role of IEC specifically mass media in improving the family planning indicators in India. The levels and changes in family planning indicators have been seen among the women’s who are exposed to family planning messages through different communication media using large scale demographic health survey for India. A measure called average treatment effect (ATE) was utilized to know the role of exposure to family planning messages in family planning outcome. This basically study the effect of the average difference in family planning indicator for the exposed and unexposed individuals to messages once all factors associated with assignment to the exposed group has been partially out. The positive treatment effect signifies that the exposed individuals were having higher level of indicator (contraceptive use, knowledge of spacing method etc.) while the unexposed individuals have been on the lower side and negative treatment effect signifies that the unexposed individuals were having the higher level of indicator (current use of modern contraceptive, knowledge of spacing methods etc.) as compared to the exposed individuals.
Publications:
Understanding the Role of Mass Media in Family Planning: A Study in India and Selected States. M.Phil. Dissertation Monograph. International Institute for Population Sciences, India
Public Health Statistics
Portfolio of Work
Tobacco use behaviour
I have worked on several research studies on tobacco use behaviour of adults and its health effects using a large-scale tobacco survey in India. My research shows that ample socioeconomic differences exist in smoking behaviour and health outcomes in India, which has not changed over time. I am looking forward to work further on implications of smoking behaviour on socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes in other LMICs.
Publications
Contextual Correlates of Intensity of Smoking in Northeast India. International Journal of Public Health, 60(3), 317-325.
Effect of Pictorial health warnings in Tobacco control programmes in India. Jansamkhya, XXXIII, 15-36.
Prevalence and determinants of tobacco use in India: Evidence from recent Global Adult Tobacco Survey Data. Plos One. 9(12): e114073.
Factors effecting exposure to second-hand smoke in India with special focus on the role of knowledge of health hazard of tobacco. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(2), 135-142.
Urban–rural differentials in the factors associated with exposure to second-hand smoke in India. BMJ Open, 3, e003542.
Improvement in life expectancy and reducing disparity
This was my PhD thesis which was focused to examine the improvement in survival rates in India with unconventional indicators of mortality such as the average life loss, which captures not only the changes in the average length of life but also the modifications in the distribution of deaths by age. This study uses large scale database of mortality in India, statistical models and life table approach. Currently I am working to expand my horizon of work in other Asian countries.
Publications
Life expectancy at birth and life disparity: An assessment of sex differentials in mortality in India. International Journal of Population Studies, 2(1), 38–52.
Measuring early life disparity in India. Journal of Biosocial Science, 48(4), 457-471.
Increasing life expectancy and convergence of age at death in India. Genus, LXIX (No. 1), 83-99.
Spatial Statistics
Portfolio of Work
Spatial analysis of child mortality at local level
This project pertains to application of spatio-temporal data analysis tools to the statistical modelling of child mortality at the district level in India using national level data sources. Using geocoded district-level data from the last two census rounds (1991 and 2011) and ordinary least squares, geographically weighted regressions and cluster analysis, this project identify local relationships between under-five mortality rate and a series of determinants for two periods separated by 20 years (1986–1987 and 2006–2007). This project advocate the view that identifying local predictors of under-five mortality is important for designing interventions in specific areas. The project is funded under MOVE-IN Louvain” Incoming Post-doctoral Fellowship, co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission.
Publications
Continuities and changes in spatial patterns of under-five mortality at the district level in India (1991 to 2011). International Journal of Health Geographics, 17: 39.
Mapping female disadvantage in child mortality at the district level in India, 1991-2011. Working Paper.
