Ah makes sense! Still, i look forward to the dataset FAQ getting uploaded. But thank you so much for the quick clarification.
Regards, Kritarth On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 12:23:27 UTC+5:30 Harsh Nisar wrote: > Hi, > > The definitions were purposely kept lose as the primary focus of the > datasets was to aid *local *selection of roads for a government > programme. In such cases; the consistency of definitions within a > block/district/state was assumed more important than having it consistent > across geographies. The primary focus isn't a comparative census. > > So the definitions are as assumed by the JE/AE (frontline road engineers) > residing in the Block or in some states they borrowed from census. But > there isn't a documented consistency. But, the variance in high schools > will be minimal versus say agro industry. > > The generic list of facilities to be surveyed are in the guidelines > document Annexure 1 Pg 37. > > We are in process of getting a dataset FAQ uploaded on ommas. > > Regards, > Harsh > > On Monday, 30 November 2020 at 17:54:01 UTC+5:30 krit...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi Harsh, All; >> >> Thank you for pointing this dataset out and storing it in an easy to >> access location. It looks super useful. >> >> I was trying to find how exactly they've classified schools and hospitals >> and couldn't find anything in this PMGSY documentation >> <https://pmgsy.nic.in/sites/default/files/PMGSY_III_guidelines.pdf>. >> For example the census 2011 documents what constitutes a high school and a >> higher secondary school for example here >> <https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB%202011-Concepts%20&%20Definitions%20Village%20and%20Town%20Directory.pdf>. >> >> I wonder if they've used the same definitions for schools and hospitals as >> the census? Does anyone have any information on how they've chosen what >> public facilities to document or is it pretty ad hoc as Harsh had indicated >> in the opening post on this thread? >> >> Regards, >> Kritarth Jha >> >> >> On Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 11:44:41 UTC+5:30 Arun Ganesh wrote: >> >>> Btw, Bhanu and I have made some great progress matching the LGD codes in >>> the last hour. 100% of districts matched and it looks like the PMGSY >>> district names are definitely older (eg. Allahabad vs Prayagraj). >>> >>> Down to 1539 unmatched blocks which can be finished with some help. Feel >>> free to request access to above sheet if you would like to help out. >>> Instructions on column I & H. You basically need to copy and paste the >>> matching lookup key from the lgd block sheet to the pmgsy sheet. >>> >> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/7419fc21-5abf-4fc4-83f2-6a56fd0918b5n%40googlegroups.com.
