CRRID staff, inclusive of those in the Population Research Center (PRC), consists of employees in five main sections namely, Research Faculty, Library and Information Services, Data Processing Services, Publications and General Administration. Besides the core staff, there is also project specific staff, which is employed in the time bound research and intervention projects carried out by the Centre.
The diverse background of research faculty at CRRID reflects the multidisciplinary orientation of research and action programmes at the Centre and is national in character. The Centre has a competitive and scientific system of recruitment into academic positions that are filled through open nationwide advertisements. A flexible system of promotion and performance assessment is adopted at the Centre, and the compensation packages to the staff are comparable to the best in academic sphere. The present academic structure at the Centre is organised into different levels and the core faculty is divided into three main categories namely, the Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor: