Nia publishes data on India's migrant labour market: what workers earn, what they keep, and where they move. This page sets out how that data is gathered, checked, and corrected.
We run three series. The Wage Tracker records take-home pay across industrial corridors, after deductions, not before. The Savings Index records what a worker keeps and sends home, not what he is paid. Corridor Watch records the movement of labour between manufacturing clusters as it happens. Each is a single, specific number carrying a single, named source.
Every figure we publish traces to a source we can name. Some come from public records: the Sample Registration System, state wage boards, published PLI disclosures. Some come from Nia's own field operations across five hubs and seventy-six Studios, and where a number is ours we say so and say how it was measured. We do not average two sources to manufacture a third. We do not round a figure because it reads better. If we cannot name where a number came from, it does not run.
We do not use generated or stock imagery to illustrate a worker's life. The photographs we publish are taken in the places we operate, of conditions we have seen. We do not borrow another publication's image and present it as our own. A chart carries no Nia mark, because the data is not ours to brand. The point of the network is the number, not the logo.
The Migration Intelligence Network reports the labour market. It is not a feed for Nia's products. When the data is unflattering to the industry Nia operates in, we publish it anyway. A reader should be able to use what we publish without ever becoming a Nia member, and most will. We report what we see, where we stand, and we name our sources. That is the whole standard.