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The Institute has state-of-the-art computer centre with about 46 computers hooked through a local area network using Windows 2003 Domain Server. A last mile fiber-optic connectivity with 1.00 Mbps (1:1) Bandwidth providing continuous internet facility has been added. We have a set of high-speed LaserJet Network Printers for production of quality outputs to suppoort our system. It is also equipped with an Uninterrupted Power Supply Unit with battery backup for full computer system. We have installed Cyberoam Firewall with UTM bundle of Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Web filtering and Bandwidth management facilities. |
The centre has capacity to handle large-scale field survey based data and data from sources like Census, National Sample Surveys, National Account Statistics etc. It has an Integrated System for Survey Analysis (ISSA), special software for hierarchical data entry with consistency checks for maintaining data quality. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 16.0) is widely used by the Institute's researchers. The package includes modules on advanced statistics, regression, time series etc. for univariate and multivariate analysis. Sophisticated statistical and econometric techniques are widely used in research projects of the Institute. In addition, various agencies including the government departments, have assigned special projects for creating databases. The centre is managed by qualified and experienced professionals in the area of Information technology and management.
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