Investigators Examination
This Examination is held by Staff Selection Commission for
the recruitment of Investigators in National Sample Organization (Field
Operations Division) and Ministry of Planning.
Eligibility:
Age:
20-28 years as on August of the year of examination. Age concession is according
to rules and regulations of the
Government of India.
Nationality: A candidate must be either:—
(a) A citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962
with the intention of permanently settling in India. or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri
Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania,
Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of
permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above
shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued
by theGovernment of India.
A candidate in whose case a certificate of
eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but the offer of
appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has
been issued to him by theGovernment of India.
Educational Qualification:
Degree with Mathematics or Statistics or Economics as a subject from a
recognized University.
Note: Candidates having Honours Degree should have Mathematics or
Statistics or Economics as a main subject and not as a subsidiary subject.
Desirable: I) Ability to read, write and speak the state language.
II) Knowledge of other regional languages. III) capability to undertake
strenuous outdoor work.
Pattern:
Proficiency Test
Paper I: (Objective type consisting of 200 questions) – 2 hours
Subjects |
Marks |
General Intelligence |
50 |
General Awareness |
50 |
General English & C omprehension |
100 |
Paper II: (Conventional type consisting of 200 questions of 200 marks) – 2
hours
Subject: Statistics/Economics/Mathematics
Note: Paper II (conventional paper) will be evaluated in respect of only
those candidates who qualify in Paper - I (Objective type paper) at the standard
which may be decided by the Commission at its discretion.
Interview – 100
Marks. Only those candidates who secure in the written examination the minimum
qualifying marks, as may be fixed by the commission in their discretion are
eligible to appear at the interview.
Syllabus:
For the post of Investigators in the NSSO (FOD) for the
subject of Statistics:
Probability, Probability Distributions:
Binomial, Poisson, Normal, Exponential. Compilation, classification, tabulation
of statistical data, Graphical presentation of data. Measures of central
tendency, measures of dispersion, measures of association and contingency,
scatter diagram, correlation coefficient, rank correlation efficient and linear
regression analysis (for two or more variables) excluding partial
correlation coefficients. Concept of
Population, random sample, parameters, statistics,
sampling distribution of x, properties of
estimators and estimation of confidence intervals. Principles of sampling,
simple random sampling, stratified sampling, systematic sampling, etc. Sampling
and Non-sampling errors, type-I and type-II errors.
Concepts of Hypothesis: Null and alternate. Testing of hypothesis for large
samples as well as small samples including Chi-square tests (Z,t,F,X tests).
Index Numbers, Time series analysis-components of variation and their
estimation.
Economics:
(A) General Economics:
1. Demand and Supply Analysis, including Laws and Interaction
2. Production Function and Laws of Returns.
3. Commodity Pricing-Characteristics of various Market Forms under such
Market form
4. Theory of Factor Pricing-Rent, Wage, Interest and profit.
5. Theory of Employment-Classical and Neo-classical Approach.
6. Keynesian Theory of Employment-Principle of Effective Importance of
Investment, Relation