Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Dataset for India (SHRUG)

The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG) facilitates data sharing between researchers working on India. It is an open access repository currently comprising dozens of datasets covering India's over 500,000 villages and 8000 towns over a span of 25 years, all linked together with a set of common geographic identifiers. This is an archive of a prior version of SHRUG (v2.0). Major releases will be catalogued on Harvard Dataverse, but additional minor releases will not be. Harvard Dataverse v5.0 corresponds to SHRUG v2.0. Harvard Dataverse v4.0 corresponds to SHRUG v1.5. Harvard Dataverse v3.0 corresponds to SHRUG v1.3. Harvard Dataverse v2.0 corresponds to SHRUG v1.2. For a complete description of the SHRUG and to download the most recent version, please go to devdatalab.org/shrug.