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⇱ Three-year delay for Indian census frustrates researchers

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Today, Hauz Khas is a chic neighbourhood in southern Delhi that is popular with wealthy urbanites. But parts of the area were classified as rural in 2011, when India’s last census was conducted. Researchers say that delays in conducting the latest national census, which was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and hasn’t been rescheduled, mean that many important data sets are out of date. Without an updated census, scientists say their analyses on everything from population ageing to urban migration have become unreliable.

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Nature 631, 718-719 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02321-9

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