The Invest India Incomes and Savings Survey 2007 produced by IIMS Dataworks in June 2007 is the most comprehensive study yet on mass markets for banking, credit, securities, insurance, micro-finance, residential housing, mutual funds and pensions in India. Based on in-depth interviews with 100,000 respondents aged 18 to 59 years with cash incomes, and drawn from a household listing sample of one million households, the Survey is the largest-ever study of its kind in the world.
The survey has produced a unique unit-record database that directly links the incomes, investment and savings portfolios, insurance and credit positions, retirement outlook, financial sector access, labour market characteristics and demography of the 321 million members of the paid workforce across urban and rural India.
IIMS Dataworks is offering the full unit-record survey database to subscribers. Over 100 financial firms, regulators, government departments, economists and universities are already using the data for designing public policies, regulatory response and business strategies. The unit-record Database is embedded in a customised analytical software (FactFinder 1.0) produced by IIMS Dataworks. This software works on a cross-tabulation principle and enables a wide range of complex queries using multiple variables. The software has in-built options of generating complex tables and importing to excel; creating designer graphics and exporting to jpeg or bmp, tiff etc.; creating filters and conditionalities to query a defined subset of the sample; creating ranges to use discrete variables like age, income, savings/ investment values in tabular format.
The subscription price for the FactFinder 1.0 is Rs.400,000/US$10,000. Inclusive in this price are three licenses of the analysis software and training for a maximum of 5 nominated staff members at Mumbai or Delhi. For installations and training at any other city, the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Dataworks will be charged to the client as per actual.
