The UPSC has prescribed a detailed Syllabus for the vanacy of Investigator Grade 1 for Labour Bureau. The syllabus can be divided into following 9 sub-headings.

Out of these 9 subheadings, our course at Human Peritus covers everything except Point no. 1 and Point no. 8. This will give you coverage of around 80% of syllabus.

For 7 sub-headings (which we are covering), you will get access to a online Learning Management System (LMS), which has video classes, content and practice questions. You need not touch anything else for these 7 sub-headings.

You may get in touch with our team. We will give you access to this online course for 1 day for free. You can look at everything and then make up your mind.

1. Population and Survey
(i) Composition of India’s population: demographic, social, economic and cultural factors affecting age-sex structure of population and its relevance in population dynamics, Levels, trends and differentials of mortality and fertility indicators. (ii) Population ageing: concepts and measures of population ageing, components of population ageing. Trends and pattern of ageing in India and States (iii) Demographic dividend & demographic rates and ratios. (iv) Evolution and development of population policies and family welfare programmes in India. Population surveys: meaning, scope, uses, limitations; major surveys: national sample surveys (NSS), reproductive and child health survey (RCHS), national family heath surveys (NFHS).

2. Statistics, Sampling, Time Series and Index numbers
Statistical methods of population analysis: frequency distribution, descriptive and Inductive statistics, measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode); measure of dispersion (range, variance and standard deviation); correlation and linear regression, introduction to testing of statistical hypothesis and test of significance. Sample and Population, Sampling Unit, Sampling frame, Sampling fraction, errors in a survey, Sampling with and without replacement, Simple random sampling, Stratified random sampling, Systematic sampling, Cluster sampling, Multistage sampling. Definition and components of a Time Series, various Models, Measurement of Secular trend and Seasonal Variations, Uses of time series, Criteria of a good index number, Problems in Data collection and construction, Price and cost of living index numbers; Base shifting and splicing, deflating of index numbers.

3. Economic reforms in India since 1991

4. Quantitative aptitude and general mental ability.

5. Computer Applications

6. Indian Polity

7. Indian Economy and Society

8. Physical Geography

9. Current Events