DEPUTY GOVERNOR

The Reserve Bank of India has a long history of disseminating macro-economic time series on various sectors of the Indian economy for researchers, market participants and various other stakeholders. The Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy is a lagship publication of the Reserve Bank, which provides long time series data on a wide range of financial and economic indicators.

The Handbook is also made available through the online database viz., Database on Indian Economy (DBIE) on the Reserve Bank’s website (http://dbie.rbi.org.in). Users can access the data for the latest time period from this site as the data tables in the DBIE are updated regularly and maintained up-to-date. Recognising our responsibility towards the environment, the coverage of data in the print version has been restricted to relatively shorter time periods, while the longer historical data series have been provided in electronic form.

I trust that the users will find this Handbook and the online database helpful for research, reference and other purposes. We will constantly strive for improvement in the coverage, content and timely dissemination of data. We welcome your feedback.

[Urjit R. Patel]

September 15, 2015