Updated 21 August 1995

Publicly available Indian district data files available by anonymous
ftp from cwmills.umd.edu:

The following files are available for Indian district data; some of
these are very large files.  The files are more fully described in the
codebook files.

Codebook files:
   --- name ---  --- size ---- 
   codebook.prt  87K bytes  2244 records = basic codebook (describes data
                                           including data not yet available)
   records.prt   23K bytes   528 records = condensed description of records
   district.prt  30K bytes   594 records = district labels
   sources.prt   83K bytes  2574 records = description of Indian data sources
   variable.prt  67K bytes  1650 records = detailed descriptions of variables
                                           from original Indian sources
Data files
   labels.dat      7K bytes    366 records = 1981 district labels
   agric.dat    9468K bytes 305778 records = 1961-82 crop area & production data
                                             339 districts, 22 years, 41 crops
   agsum.dat     712K bytes  22374 records = 1961-82 summary crop data
                                             339 districts; 22 years; 3 variables
   census81.dat 2560K bytes  63684 records = 1981 cross-section census & agric 
                                             366 districts of 174 records each
   panel.dat    4920K bytes 122040 records = 1961, 1971, and 1981 census data
                                             339 districts, "common" boundaries