Primitive explanations of primitive assumptions

Prof. Pulak Ghosh and Dr. Soumya Kanti Ghosh provided explanations to what I called as primitive assumptions in their work on payrolls data. I had pointed out to them, four areas where their assumptions were primitive. These were (1) assumption of a 50 per cent "haircut", (2) assumption of a 25 per cent "drop out" rate, (3) selection of the age band 18-25 years in the case of EPFO and (4) selection of a different band viz. 18-22 years in the case of ESIC.

Nevertheless, I welcomed the use of a payrolls database and even exhorted the government to use