Indian District Database

Crop area and production format

Individual crop data (501-569) formats:

column data:
1-2 State ID
3-4: District ID
5-7: Record identification (see list)
8-9: Year of data (last two digits)
10: Version number (2 = cross-sectional data; 6 = panel 1961-91 data)
11-19 area
20-28 production
29 source for area and production data:
  A: Statistical Abstract from state
  C: Area & Production of Principal Crops in India (all-India, statewise)
  D: Estimates of Area & Production of Principal Crops in India, 1954-55 to 1964-65 (Detailed Tables).
  I: Indian Agricultural Statistics (districtwise area only; districtwise production estimated.
  J: Agricultural Situation in India (monthly journal)
  P: Projection of statewise data in Area and Production of Principal Crops in India (item C above)
  S: Season and crop report from state
  X: no data reported, assumed to be zero
30 revision of area and production data
  R: fully revised data
  P: partially revised data
  F: final estimates
  V: three-year average of adjacent years
  X: no data reported, assumed to be zero
  Y: area from source; production estimated from statewise yields
  Z: area from source; production estimated from statewise yields as estimated from adjacent years
  J: estimated from statewise totals in Agricultural Situation in India and districtwise distributions from adjacent years
  C: estimated from statewise data in Area & Production of Principal Crops in India and districtwise distributions in adjacent years
  D: estimated from (projected) statewise totals and districtwise distributions within states for adjacent years
  S: summer rice estimated from adjacent years
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Indian District Database
Last updated October 1, 2000
comments to: Reeve Vanneman. reeve@umd.edu