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An Indian Statistical Service (ISS) Officer is a Group A Central Service statistician selected through the UPSC ISS Examination, posted in MoSPI (Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation), the National Statistical Office (NSO — which subsumed NSSO and CSO), state Directorates of Economics and Statistics (DESs), NITI Aayog, and ministries needing embedded statistical capacity. The role governs India's official statistical machinery: the National Accounts (GDP, GVA), Consumer Price Index, Periodic Labour Force Survey, Annual Survey of Industries, and large-scale NSSO household surveys. ISS Officers design sampling frames, validate data quality at national scale, produce press releases on macro-indicators, and brief Parliament and the Finance Ministry. The exam draws primarily from Statistics, Mathematics, and Operations Research graduates; entry is at Assistant Director level (Pay Level 10 of the 7th CPC matrix) and tops out at Chief Statistician of India / Secretary-rank positions.
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