Indian Land Officials Survey: Bureaucrat Assignments and Political Control

Nationwide survey data of Indian land administration officials conducted by Anustubh Agnihotri and published via the AJPS Dataverse. The data captures bureaucrat preferences regarding urban amenities, staffing, and hometown proximity alongside political pressure metrics related to land transactions. It was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between post desirability (urban amenities, staffing) and political compliance
• Modeling bureaucratic transfer patterns as a function of rural-to-urban land transaction volumes
• Estimating the salary-equivalent value of non-monetary job attributes like hometown proximity

Strengths

• Nationwide survey coverage of Indian land officials
• Includes salary-equivalent preference metrics for bureaucratic posts
• Links personnel assignments to rural-to-urban land transaction volumes

Limitations

• Specific to the Indian land administration sector
• Self-reported survey data may contain social desirability bias regarding corruption
• Metadata does not specify the exact number of respondents or column headers

Provenance

Source

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) Dataverse

Collection Method

Nationwide survey

Freshness

Last updated March 2026

Geography

India