In 2018 a team of journalists, economists, photographers, survey researchers and sociologists from India and four other countries travelled around the country documenting the lives of Indians from all walks of life. Consumption per capita was measured as done in the National Sample Survey and one hundred homes – five in each of twenty representative locations – were chosen to fit the actual distribution. Then they were photographed - the people, their workplaces, their homes, their towns and villages - to show what abstract statistics measuring standards of living look like in real life. The results show the complexity and the richness of life behind the statistics. This presentation by Jeff Hammer is the fifth 3ie Howard White Lecture and was part of the 3ie Delhi Evidence Week 2019 conference.
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