📢 NEEMSIS-3 pilot survey is underway!
We are excited to share that the NEEMSIS-3 pilot survey is officially underway!
Before we launch the full NEEMSIS survey across villages in Tamil Nadu, it’s essential to first test our approach. The pilot survey serves as a crucial step in ensuring that our questionnaire is effective, clear, and ready for the real populations we aim to study. Why?
- Refining the questionnaire. The pilot helps us assess whether the questions are clear, relevant, and easy for respondents to understand, so we can fine-tune them before gathering data from a larger population.
- Testing survey logistics. We are testing how well the survey can be implemented in the field, identifying potential challenges in data collection, timing, and logistics.
- Ensuring data quality. By running the survey on a smaller scale first, we can ensure we are collecting reliable, high-quality data that will inform our understanding of critical issues like migration, skills, and social networks.
- Gaining initial feedback. The pilot allows us to gather feedback from both respondents and field teams, which is invaluable for improving the survey experience and ensuring we capture the most meaningful data.
NEEMSIS-3 is the third wave of NEEMSIS longitudinal data collection, following surveys conducted in 2016 and 2020. Together with the RUME baseline survey conducted in 2010, NEEMSIS will soon comprise a panel of more than 400 households with four points in time (2010, 2016, 2020 and 2025-2026).
This ongoing data collection will enable us to examine changes over more than 15 years in labour, migration, social networks, skills and inequalities in India.

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