<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 4pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #2e74b5; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Job Role / Nature of Work</span></strong></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-align: justify;">Worked as a Research/Data Analysis Intern - Labour Market &amp; Skill Sector, embedded in NSDC's research function, translating official Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2025 microdata (MoSPI/NSO) into skill-policy inputs spanning raw data engineering, applied labour-market analytics, and policy proposal writing.</p>
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 4pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #2e74b5; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Key Work Areas</span></strong></h2>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->PLFS 2025 Microdata Parsing &amp; Processing&nbsp;&nbsp;Extraction, decoding of fixed-width unit-level files (person/household), application of survey weights, and construction of LFPR, WPR, and Unemployment Rate indicators in R, validated against MoSPI's published Table 18.0.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Skill-Sector Research Analysis - Cross-tabulated vocational/technical training status (type, duration, funding source) against employment outcomes, NIC-2008 sector, and state, to surface skill gaps relevant to NSDC's programme targeting.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->State Proposal Writing - Drafted evidence-based proposals for state governments to establish skill-centric hubs, using PLFS-derived state labour-market profiles and skill-gap findings to justify hub location and sector focus.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->ISCO Occupational Coding - Mapped India's NCO codes to ISCO-08 (with reference to ISCO-88) occupation classifications; restructured occupation-code datasets from horizontal to vertical layouts for analytical use.</p>
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 4pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #2e74b5; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Skills Learned</span></strong></h2>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Technical: R (readr, dplyr, readxl, archive, stringr, haven), fixed-width data decoding, survey-weight application, Excel-based cross-tabulation and data restructuring.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Analytical: Official survey methodology (usual status/CWS concepts), indicator validation against published benchmarks, occupational classification systems (ISCO-08/88).</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Applied/Policy: Converting statistical evidence into state-level policy proposals; sector-gap identification for skill-programme design.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Data governance/confidentiality practice for unit-level survey data, structured technical report writing.</p>
<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 4pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #2e74b5; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Roles &amp; Responsibilities</span></strong></span></h2>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Parsed and decoded PLFS 2025 unit-level microdata; validated indicators against MoSPI's official Table 18.0.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Analyzed skill-training patterns against employment outcomes to identify state/sector skill gaps for NSDC.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Drafted state-level proposals for establishing skill-centric hubs, backed by PLFS-derived evidence.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Mapped and harmonized NCO occupation codes to ISCO-08/88 classification standards.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Maintained data governance and documentation discipline for unit-level survey data handling.</p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->R (readr, dplyr, readxl, archive, stringr, haven) - microdata extraction, decoding, weighting.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->MS Excel - cross-tabulation, layout/code-sheet reference, horizontal-to-vertical data restructuring.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">●<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]-->Survey methodology - usual status/CWS classification, final weight application, benchmark validation.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.0pt 36.0pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><!--[endif]-->Occupational classification mapping - ISCO-08/ISCO-88 crosswalk against India's NCO codes.</p>
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