RBI Working Paper No. 01/2026: Data Gaps in State-Level Inflation: An Assessment for the Covid Period
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Today the Reserve Bank of India placed on its website a Working Paper titled, “Data Gaps in State-Level Inflation: An Assessment for the Covid Period” under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series1. The paper is co-authored by Purnima Shaw and R. K. Sinha. The collection and compilation of official statistics was affected during the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic due to the resulting restrictions across the world. In India, imputed price indices for the official inflation were