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More or Less: Behind the Stats

Data for India

More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC

Business, Mathematics, Science, News Commentary, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

India’s election has been running since 19 April. With results imminent on 4th June, More or Less talks with Chennai based data communicator Rukmini S. She founded Data for India, a new website designed to make socioeconomic data on India easier to find and understand. She talks us through the changing trends to help give a better picture of the type of country the winning party will govern.

Producers: Bethan Ashmead and Nathan Gower Sound Engineer: Nigel Appleton Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown Editor: Richard Vadon

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0:30.4

Hello and

0:33.7

we're your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life and I'm Tim

0:37.5

Harford.

0:38.1

India's epic six-week election is into the final straight, but what kind of country

0:49.9

will the next government be leading? India recently became the country with the largest population in the world,

0:56.0

and over the decades Indians have experienced huge changes,

0:59.0

from everything from access to clean water

1:02.0

to the number of children born per woman.

1:04.0

But keeping track of these changes can be difficult in India

1:07.0

where it's hard for people to see public data in an accessible format.

1:11.0

Well, Rukmini S, a data communicator based in Chennai has an answer.

1:16.2

She's founded Data for India, a website that makes basic socioeconomic public data

1:22.2

easier to find and easier to understand.

1:27.0

Welcome back to more or less Rookmani. The first thing when I think of India for a long time we were used to

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