The primary source of the Agriculture data is Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Annual data series are available for more than 18 variables under agricultural production and inputs.

Annual indices on Area under Cultivation, Yield per Hectare and Production Indices for 25 Crops are available. Production and Area under Cultivation data is available from 1951 onwards for major food grains and commercial crops. State-Wise Production data for major food grains and non-food crops are also available from 1981 onwards.

Data series on agricultural inputs like Sown Area, Irrigated Area and Consumption of Fertilizer are available from 1951 onwards. Data series on Procurement, Off-Take and Stock data for rice and wheat are available from 1972. Minimum Support Price for 7 food grains and 9 major non-food grains are available from 1976 onwards.

The primary source of National Income data is Central Statistics Office. Quarterly estimates of Gross Domestic Products at Factor Cost/Market Prices are available industry wise at current and constant prices. Components of GDP such as Private Final Consumption Expenditure (PFCE), Government Final Consumption Expenditure (GFCE), Gross Fixed Capital Formation GFCF), Exports, Imports are also made available at current and constant prices on a quarterly basis.

Annual data series at industry level are available on Net State Domestic Products at Factor Cost. Long time series data on various GDP aggregates, Savings, Capital Formation at various sector levels are available from 1950 onwards.

GVA (at current and constant 2011-12 prices) by economic activity, is valued at basic prices, i.e. output is valued at basic prices and inputs at purchaser's prices including production tax less production subsidies. Data for GVA is available from 2011 onwards.

The Reserve Bank of India has been publishing studies on the financial performance of Indian private corporate business sector at regular interval. The studies are undertaken with a view to capture the trends in income, value of production, sales, profitability, saving, investment, borrowings, etc. in the private corporate business sector.

Main sources for the corporate sector statistics are the Annual Reports and Account of the Companies i.e. Balance Sheet, Manufacturing, Trading and Profit and Loss Accounts.

Data related to Non-Government Non-Financial Public Limited Companies and Private Limited Companies are presented at aggregate level and available for select industry groups. Also, data relating to Non-Government Financial and Investment Companies are presented at aggregate level for major activity groups.

Annual data on different financial ratios, viz. Capital Structure Ratios, Liquidity Ratios, Assets Utilization and Turnover Ratios of Select Public Limited Companies (Industry-wise) are made available since March 2000 onwards.

Capital Structure Ratios

• Net fixed assets to total net assets
• Net worth to total net assets
• Debt to equity
• Debt to equity (adjusted for revaluation)
• Short term bank borrowings to inventories
• Total outside liabilities to net worth

Information on assets and liabilities of Scheduled Commercial Banks are received through various statutory returns submitted to RBI. Various data sets that are made available under this section are listed below.

Aggregated data on various items of Liabilities and Assets of all Scheduled Commercial Banks in India are made available on fortnightly basis at all India level and Bank group level.

Bank level detailed data on various items of Capital, Liabilities and Assets of Scheduled Commercial Banks based on annual reports submitted by the banks are available annually with 15 months lag.

State-wise distribution of Liabilities and Assets of State Co-Operative Banks and District Co-Operative Banks based on data provided by NABARD.

Yearly bank level data on Maturity Pattern of select items of Liabilities and Assets of Scheduled Commercial Banks.

The branch banking statistics are based on the Directory of Scheduled Commercial Banks in India maintained at the Banking Statistics Division, Department of Statistics and Information Management of RBI.

Statistics on Number of Banks, Branches, Newly Opened Branches, Closed Branches etc. of banks, are summarised at district, bank group and population group level are made available on a quarterly basis.

List of Bank Branches with details of Address and other Functional Characteristics are also made available.

Bank- wise Number of ATMS based on information submitted by banks. Summary statistics on Number of Branches of State and District Co-Operative Banks sourced from NABARD is also available.

This section provides data required to assess the banks' performance based on the annual statements of the banks. They include:

Measures such as Income, Expenditure, Profitability and various ratios such as Profit per Employee, Business per Employee, Return on Assets etc. are made available bank-wise from 2003.

Ratios such as Credit to Deposit, Investment to Deposit, Credit to GDP and yearly growth rates for Deposit and Credit are maintained at aggregate level from 1951 onwards.

At bank group level, Gross and Net NPA (Non-Performing Asset) data are available from 1996 onwards.

This section contains banking statistics with respect to different dimensions like sectors, industry, district, state, region, bank group, population group etc. Various data sets that are made available under this section are listed below.

Weekly data on Food and Non-food Credit of Scheduled commercial Banks is available from 1993.

Monthly Data on Bank Credit to various sectors and industry at all India level is available from April 2007 and is updated with a lag of one and half month. This data is based on returns submitted by selected banks that account for 95% of the bank total bank credit.

Data on Credit and Deposit with respect to Bank, District, State, Population Group are made available on a quarterly basis with a lag of one and half month and this data is available from 1991.

Micro level data on Bank Credit (credit amount outstanding as on March 31) under various dimensions such as Industry, District (place of sanction and place of utilization), Population Group, Bank Group and Interest Rate are released annually with a lag of a year and the data is available from 2001.

Money Market is a key component of the financial system which is used by the Central Bank in its monetary operations. It is a market of short-term funds with maturity ranging from overnight to one year and includes financial instruments that are deemed to be close substitute of money.

Daily data series are available on Maximum and Minimum Rate, Weighted Average Rates and Turnover from 2005 onwards for various money markets such as Call, CBLO and Market Repo.

Daily data series on Mumbai Inter-Bank Bid Rate (MIBID) and Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate (MIBOR) for overnight, 14 days, 1 month and 3 months are also available from 1998 onwards.

The Reserve Bank, as a monetary authority, has a special interest in developing the government securities market given its criticality in acting as the transmission channel of monetary policy. Moreover, it is important for the Reserve Bank, as a manager of public debt, to have a well-developed government securities market as it provides flexibility to exercise various options for optimizing maturity as well as interest cost to the Government.

The data series based on the auction data available are Notified Amount, Bid Amount, Issue Amount, Cut-off Price, Implicit Yield at Cut-Off Price, No. of Bids Received, Devolvement on PDs, and Outstanding Amount on date of issuance of T-Bills (91 days, 182 days and 364 days). These series are available on a weekly and fortnightly basis. Holder-wise Outstanding Positions on treasury bills are available since 2007 onwards.
Details of Central Government Borrowing are available from 1995 onwards with details such as Date of Issue, Notified Amount, Residual Maturity Period, Bids Received, Bids Accepted, and Yield to Maturity.
As regards outstanding positions in regard to Government of India dated securities, presently only the Latest Outstanding Position is available security-wise with maturity date.
Secondary market Turnover of Central Government Dated Securities, State Government in Government Securities and Treasury Bills including RBI's Open Market Operation volume are available on a weekly basis since April 1998. Similarly, Turnovers of Repo Transactions in the secondary market are available for Central Government Dated Securities, State Government in Government Securities and Treasury Bills on a weekly basis since April 1998. Data on Month-end Average Yield on transactions in Central Government securities according to residual maturity is available since April 1996. Security-wise Mean Weighted Average Yield is also available as Hand Book of Statistics publication report.
Ownership Pattern of Central and State Government Securities are available on an annual basis. Finally, List of SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio) Securities of Central Government, State Government and Central/State Government Institutions are also maintained.

Quarterly data series on External Debt at various component levels (Government Borrowing, Commercial Borrowing, NRE Deposit, Export Credit, etc.) are available as a time series formatted report from 1999 onwards. Quarterly data is also available from 2004 onwards.

Currency Composition of External Debtis is available on a quarterly basis since March 1997. Key External Debt Indicators such as Debt Service Ratio, Ratio of Short Term Debt to Total Debt, Ratio of Short Term Debt to Foreign Currency Assets, Ratio of Foreign Exchange Reserves to Total Debt and Ratio of External Debt to GDP are also available.

Data series on Multilateral Exchange Rates (Base: 1993-94), Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) and Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) based on 36-currency trade as well as export based weights and 6-currency trade based weights are available. These data series are available in monthly as well as in annual frequencies since April 1993. Historical data is available for 36 country based on bilateral rate with Base 1985=100 from January 1975 to August 2005. Historical data series on Annual Average Exchange Rates for four major currencies are available since 1971 onwards. Index Numbers of Imports and Exports on Quantum and Unit Value are also available since 1999 onwards.

Weekly data series on Components of Foreign Exchange Reserve is available since April 2001 onwards. These series are also presented on

Data series on major components of Central Government Account Receipts are available from 1970 onwards. Similarly, data series on major components of expenditure are also available from 1970 onwards.

Data series on Gross Fiscal Deficit and its financing components like are available from 1980 onwards. Data series on key deficit indicators are also available from 1970 onwards. Selected fiscal indicators on tax revenues, interest payments, subsidy, fiscal deficits and its financing are also available. Data series on outstanding liabilities such as loans, external liabilities etc., of central Government are also available. Gross Fiscal Deficit data is also presented on a monthly basis.

Primary sources of different data series, viz. Employment, Education, Poverty etc. pertaining to Socio-Economic Indicators are National Sample Survey Organization, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India; Directorate General of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India; Planning Commission, Government of India; and Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government.

Data series on Per Thousand Distributions of Employee in different sectors; viz. Primary Sector, Secondary Sector, Tertiary Sector are available on yearly basis vis-à-vis gender and region from 1983 revealing overall employment situation in India.