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India to launch headline Index of Services Production within months

India plans to launch a headline Index of Services Production (ISP) within the next few months, giving investors the country's first official monthly measure of services output. The statistics ministry has released trial indices for 19 service sub-sectors covering about 60% of the formal services economy.

The Economic Times · Jul 17

Teaching mathematical statistics: one lecturer’s way of testing what students understand

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of assessing what they’ve absorbed and retained. Students have to show and discuss how they arrived at…

The Conversation · Mar 4

Data gaps and demographic change: the end of the NZ census will create big blind spots

Ending the New Zealand census as we’ve known it will save money – it was “no longer financially viable”, according to Statistics Minister Shane Reti – but the true cost of those savings could be considerable.

The Conversation · Jun 24, 2025