Central government plans to conduct household income survey in 2026

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The Government of India (GoI) is planning to conduct a survey to ascertain household incomes of families in 2026.

Union Minister of State (Independent) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Rao Inderjit Singh revealed this during the current session of the Lok Sabha. He said this while replying to a query from Assam MP Gaurav Gogoi.

In his reply, the minister said, “The National Statistics Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, has planned to conduct a survey on household income in 2026. For providing technical guidance with regard to the finalization of concepts and definitions, preparation of the survey method and instruments, sampling design, and method of estimation on analysing best country practices adopted across the world, a technical expert group (TEG) under the chairmanship of Dr Surjit S. Bhalla, former Executive Director of India, International Monetary Fund, has been constituted. The TEG consists of eminent economists and professors from different institutes of international repute, like the Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, etc. The terms of reference of the TEG inter alia include providing guidance with regard to finalization of concepts and definitions, preparation of the survey method and instruments, sampling design and method of estimation, and finalization of the survey results and report for release. The development of survey methodology and survey instruments for the household income survey under the overall guidance of TEG has been started.

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