All India Debt and Investment Survey (AIDIS) & Situation Assessment Survey:
The All India Debt and Investment Survey (AIDIS) and the Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households are scheduled to be conducted from July 2026 to June 2027.
- The AIDIS is one of India’s most significant surveys on household finance.
- Its origins go back to the All India Rural Credit Survey (1951-52), later expanded to cover both debt and investment in 1961-62.
- Since then, the NSO has conducted AIDIS roughly once every decade, most recently in the 77th Round (2019) at the request of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
- The survey provides critical data on household indebtedness and asset ownership across both rural and urban areas.
- Its findings are instrumental in shaping national accounts, assessing inequality in asset distribution, understanding credit markets, and informing policies of the RBI, MoSPI, and other government institutions.
- It is conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO), under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).
- Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households first launched in 2003.
- It is designed to assess the economic conditions of farming communities.
- It was expanded in 2013 to cover all agricultural households and further strengthened in the 2019 round.
- It now provides comprehensive insights into the livelihoods of agricultural households.
- It covers Household income and expenditure, Indebtedness and access to credit, Land and livestock ownership, Crop and livestock production, and use of technology and Access to government schemes and crop insurance. Farming practices
- The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, NITI Aayog, researchers, and financial institutions utilise the survey findings to shape policies and programmes aimed at agriculture and rural development.
