Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- Poverty measurements -- Statistical basis for poverty measurement : Meeting policy makers- information needs in US, statistics v/s economics and politics, India's statistical system- critiquing the report of national statistical commission -- Conflicts between national accounts and surveys : Validity of NSS estimates of consumption expenditure, data on distribution of consumption expenditure in India, validation of large scale sample survey data- case of NSS estimates of household consumption expenditure, estimates of food consumption expenditure from household surveys and national accounts, NAS-NSS estimates of private consumption for poverty estimation - further comparative examination -- Revisions and extensions of NSS methodology : Feasibility of using NSS household consumer expenditure survey data for district level poverty estimates, results of a pilot survey on sustainability of different reference periods for measuring household consumption -- Interpreting the evidence : Estimates of consumer expenditure and its distribution- statistics priorities after NSS 55th round, adjusted Indian poverty estimates for 1999/2000, poverty outcomes in India in 1990, poverty and inequality in India -- Selection of poverty lines : Minimum level of living- statistical examination, prices and poverty in India, prices and poverty in India, poverty and inequality in India- re examination -- Model based assessment of India's progress in reducing poverty in 1990s, NCAER's market information survey of households- statistical properties and applications for policy analysis, recounting the poor in India, Indian tax data -- Broder perspectives on poverty : Profile and diagnostic of poverty in UP, calorie deprivation in rural Indian between 1983 and 1999/2000, measuring poverty in Karnataka- regional dimension