- Data falsification isn't as big an issue as people think it is. It's really hard to actually coordinate and fudge data at a national level. While suppression is an issue falsification isn't as much. --- When people ask me about official data, the fear of most is that it is ‘fake’ or ‘fudged’—falsified. On a national scale, however, this is highly unlikely, because it would take the kind of coordinated, decentralised falsification that is unrealistic to expect. ‘I do not think faking or fudging is a problem, and I have looked at the data very closely,’ Pronab Sen, who was also India’s chief statistician at one point of time, told me. - Rukmini Shrinivasan in [[Whole Numbers and Half Truths]]