Subject(s): poor -- Urben poverty -- Poverty measurement -- Data base for poverty studies, dat needs for poverty alleviation studies, data base on poverty in India, appraisal of methodologies and data issues relating to poverty analysis, some observations on data base for poverty studies, data from comprehensive scheme for studying the cost of cultivation of principal crops in India and their potential use for poverty studies, understanding agrarian relations in India- comments on quality of available data, macro dimensions of urban poverty- implications for planning -- Incidence of urban poverty in different states in India, female poverty- data constraints and issues, measuring intertemporal changes in poverty population, poverty- measurement and data base issues, rural poverty in India 1973-86