Abstract
As we progress ahead and measure our growth in every field, science and technology or even societal development, every time, our focus is skewed and mostly myopic on what we achieved and what more to be done and how fast to be done. We seldom study what we really missed and skewed our development is. A retrospection and introspection, many a times, help us making a course correction. A development, or any economic growth, is no development if it is not for all and leaves a section of society. This paper looks at different social development models and important development indices which are in use today globally and analyses social development data in the Indian context. It refers to Mahalanobis D-square statistics and other Indian studies and attempts to suggest newer social development indices, using secondary data. It discusses issues relating to ‘social-big-data’, as available from secondary sources, published by various agencies. Paper presents a conceptual model for measuring the social wellbeing of individuals and families.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Tripathy, U.: Estimation of human development index in Orissa: district-wise analysis. IUP J. Manag. Econ. 8(4) (2010)
Foster, J.E., Lopez-Calva, L.F., Szekely, M.: Measuring the distribution of human development: methodology and an application to Mexico. J. Hum. Dev. 6(1), 5–25 (2005)
Sharma, S.D.: Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive. Gend. Dev. 5(1), 60–61 (1997)
Acharya, A., Wall, H.J.: An evaluation of the United Nations’ human development index. J. Econ. Soc. Meas. 20(1), 51–65 (1994)
Tripathy, U.: Estimation of human development index in Orissa: district-wise analysis. IUP J. Manag. Econ. VIII(4) (2010)
Web-Source
Acknowledgements
The author acknowledges the help and contribution of his research scholar, Mr. Smruti Malhar Mohapatro, for the collection of data and other secondary information, from the above cited sources, identified by the author.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Subudhi, R.N. (2022). Social Development Data and Societal Modelling: A Study in Indian Context. In: Rautaray, S.S., Pandey, M., Nguyen, N.G. (eds) Data Science in Societal Applications. Studies in Big Data, vol 114. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5154-1_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5154-1_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-5153-4
Online ISBN: 978-981-19-5154-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)