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National Statistics Day 2024
About the Event of National Statistics Day 2024:
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World Statistics Day:
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- National Statistics Day in India is celebrated on 29th June.
- Theme for 2024:“Use of data for decision making “The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) launched the portal eSankhyiki on the occasion.
- Objective is to establish a comprehensive data management and sharing system for ease of dissemination of official statistics in the country.
- Following three reports were released during the event:
- Sustainable Development Goals – National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2024’
- ‘Data Snapshot on Sustainable Development Goals- National Indicator Framework, 2024’
- ‘Sustainable Development Goals- National Indicator Framework, 2024’
National Statistics Day Origin and Significance:
- Origin: Designated by the Government of India in 2007 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.
- It is celebrated annually.
- Purpose: It raises awareness about the importance of statistics in national development, strategic planning, economic growth, and policy-making.
- Significance: Honors Mahalanobis as the father of Modern Statistics in India and recognizes his contributions to statistics and economic planning.
Do you Know?
- Mahalanobis distance is an effective multivariate distance metric that measures the distance between a point and a distribution.
- It is highly valuable for its applications in multivariate anomaly detection, classification with highly imbalanced datasets, and one-class classification, making it an exceptionally useful metric in these contexts.