Indian Administrative Services Dataset v1.2

Latest Updates

  1. Data scraped again from Supremo and merged with the existing dataset in Dec 2021. This updates all three parameters; profile, education and experience.
  2. New discrepancies detected as attached in exceptions in the codebook.
  3. Erroneous rows were removed from the dataset.
  4. The “Service” column was removed to avoid redundancy (all officers are IAS).
  5. Missing gender values were codified and updated by TCPD.

Terms and conditions

The TCPD-IAS dataset consists of information on IAS officers from 1951 to 2020. The users are free to download, display or include the data in other products for non-commercial purposes at no cost subject to the following limitations:

Data Citation:

"TCPD Indian Administrative Service Officers Dataset (TCPD-IAS), 1951-2020". Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University.

Codebook Citation:

Neelesh Agrawal, Srishti Gupta, Vedant Jumle, Mohit Kumar, SV Sai Vikas. 2021. "TCPD Indian Administrative Service Officers Dataset (TCPD-IAS), 1951-2020 Codebook 1.2", Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University.

Acknowledgement:

The user must agree that the use of the Data presented within the application can be seen as the acknowledgement of unconditionally accepting the Terms of Use presented by the Centre.

No Endorsement:

The user must not claim or imply that the Trivedi Centre for Political Data endorses the user's use of the data or use of the Centre's logo(s) or trademarks(s) in conjunction with the same.

No Warranty:

The Centre makes no warranties with respect to the accuracy of the data. While we do our best to ensure that the numbers are accurate, there is room for error. And as such the user must agree that the Centre shall not be held responsible or liable to the user for any errors, omissions, misstatements and/or misrepresentations of the data though the user is encouraged to report the same to us (send us a message or write us at tcpd-contact@ashoka.edu.in).

Personal data:

The Centre may record visits to the TCPD website without collecting the personal information of the users. The records shall be used for statistical reports only.