ICE360 Household Survey 2021 - Data & Coverage

Providing a View of India’s Economy through the People Lens

ICE 360° Household surveys provide a 360° view of households’ progress on financial conditions,
living conditions, access to public goods, amenities, state welfare, health, education,
occupational conditions, social and occupational mobility and inclusion in the market economy.

Survey Design and Coverage

ICE 360 will cover 25 States and Union Territories. The specific survey locations will be spread over:

100 districts
800 villages
120 towns

The survey will be carried out in two stages as follows:

2,00,000 households

2,00,000 households will be interviewed. 80,000 in rural areas and 1,20,000 in urban areas.

40,000 households

40,000 households will be interviewed. 16,000 in rural areas and 24,000 in urban areas

The first stage of the survey will capture key household characteristics to enable household categorization for exploration in Stage 2.

Information to be collected

Financial health of Indian households

Income, Expenditure, Savings, Investments, Loans, Assets: Quantum, patterns, changes over time; P&L and Balance Sheet of households.
Financial Protection against risks – sources, ability to assess risks to financial health and mitigate Demand Structure of Consumption.

Expenditure maps

Routine and non-routine expenditure by component and how this changes over generations and time.

Occupation and livelihood (how Indian households earn)

God is in the details on this one – detailed occupation mapping, patterns within households, salaried/non-salaried, nature of “formality” where employed, time utilisation (disguised unemployment).

Quality of living

Access to amenities, ownership of durables, Digital access, nature of housing, access to public goods and welfare, Health status and expenditure and use (patterns) to sources of health care, Social mobility – intergeneration and over time.

Access to public goods