Datasets

Basic Overview

Includes raw data from NSE, DotEx, National Sample Survey Reports and Surface Data like Temperature, Rainfall, Force of Wind and Squall data etc.


A dataset on the administrative boundary for the country up to taluka level with HQ (2015).

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Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) covers the units registered under the factories Act. Though these units are manufacturing units there are also a few non-manufacturing industries covered. It generates data on input, output, employment, wage bill, capital formation etc., on an annual basis.

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The CDP public datasets include all responses of global companies who have responded to CDP. The data is available in excel spreadsheets for each year of the data.

  • The climate change data has responses from 2003
  • The supply chain data is from 2010
  • The water data is from 2010
  • Forests data is from 2013


The Indian census is the source of information on demography (population characteristics), economic activity, literacy and education, housing & household amenities, urbanization, fertility and mortality, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, language, religion, migration, disability and many other socio-economic and demographic data. It's the source of primary data of village, town and ward level. It provides valuable information for planning and formulation policies for central and the state governments.

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CounterPoint datasets - Monthly model sales tracker database for smartphone (India from January 2017 to May 2018 & Bangladesh from January 2016 to March 2018)

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This Dataset contains about Ahmedabad Station's Daily Rainfall Data for the years 1975-2006 and 2012.

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It includes data on temperature, humidity, wind speed and visibility for 10 cities in India in different climatic zones. Its analyses various parameters including; temperature, rainfall, evaporation, duration of sunshine in hours, force of wind and squall data from the year 2004 to 2011.

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The data includes the quantity and value of various pulses imported from different countries via major ports of India. The pulses covered are peas, chickpeas, pigeon peas, beans, kidney beans, cowpeas, lentils and some other varieties. The data includes the quantity (in kgs) and value (in US $) of these commodities over different months from 2002 till 2017.

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The District GDP is the database on the Indian economy, contains information on the performance of the economy at the district level. More importantly, it provides sector wise estimates of GDP for each of the districts of India (as per Census 2011).

It provides; Aggregate GDP, Primary sector (agriculture, mining, fishing, forestry, livestock), Secondary sector (construction, electricity, gas & water supply, manufacturing), Tertiary sector (transport, storage & communication, trade, hotel & restaurant, public administration, banking & insurance, others) - Overall 3 major sectors and all sub-sectors of the economy. Per worker and per capita GDP & sectoral share across all sectors (at current prices) from 2001-02 t0 2015-16. GDP forecast for the above mentioned sectors till 2017-18. GDP of IT- manufacturing and IT- services (at current and constant prices) & per worker GDP IT-manufacturing and IT-services (at current prices) for 2001-02 to 2015-16.

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This Dataset contains data about Indian District's Monthly Rainfall Data for the years 1901-2010.

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This data service contains an annual time series (1994, 2000, 2005 to 2007, 2009 to 2014) of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, a major source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

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IMS Anti TB data is the drug sales audit data of anti-tuberculosis private drug market. It provides national, regional, metro and town class data from March 2010 to February 2014. It gives detailed description of the drugs like; name of the drug, brand, manufacturer, company name, group of the drug, etc.

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Provides data with GIS information (Shape 5 data) on India administrative districts maps as per census 1991, 2001, 2011.

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IQVIA Medical Audit is a database which helps understand the Prescription behavior trend of Doctors across all major therapies in the Indian Pharma Market. The base of the data is Prescriptions (approx. 1 million per month) collected from a panel of approx. 6000 Doctors from Metros (23 cities) and Class 1 (112 Cities) spread across India. These Panel Doctors are spread across 19 important specialities and the data is visible by speciality. The data is extrapolated from these panel doctors to represent the universe within metro + class I towns in India. The database helps understand the number of Prescriptions written, number of doctors writing these prescription and various derived parameters from these two for different therapies/molecules/brands/SKUs in the Indian Pharma market. Various other parameters like the age group of patient, the gender of patients, indication & symptoms etc.

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This Dataset contains about Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar Station's Daily maximum & minimum temperature, Daily total rainfall, Daily relative humidity, Daily wind direction & wind speed, and Air Pressure ( SLP ) for the years 2014-2016.

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It includes data on temperature, humidity, wind speed and visibility for 30 cities in India in different climatic zones. Its analyses various parameters including; temperature, rainfall, evaporation, duration of sunshine in hours, force of wind and squall data from the year 1961 to 2014.

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Historical Trade data: Historical high-frequency tick by tick trades data is provided on DVDs/CDs and through internet download facility. The historical data is available for the capital market segment (CM), futures & option segment (FAO) and wholesale debt market segment (WDM). Historical data contains: (a) Day wise bhavcopy for each trading day (b) Circulars issued by NSE or NSCCL during the month (c) Masters containing information like symbols, series, ISINs, etc. (d) Snapshots of the limit order book at four time points in the day and (e) Trades data containing details about every trade that took place.

CM (January 1999 - Present) and FAO (January 2000 - Present)

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NSE (National Stock Exchange) Historical Data containing standard details of the tick by tick Order level, Trade level data, and other related information about securities for the period 2019 to 2020 in the Capital Market Segment of the Exchange.

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The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) in India is a unique setup to carry out surveys on socio-economic, demographic, agricultural and industrial subjects for collecting data from households and from enterprises located in villages and in the towns. It is a focal agency of the Govt. of India for collection of statistical data in the areas which are vital for developmental planning.

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