How to Pass View Data to Partial View in Asp.net core?

The issue is that you've got double quotes inside the view-data attribute. You need to use single quotes around the attribute value.

<partial name="_Emplyees" model="Employees" view-data='@new ViewDataDictionary(ViewData) { { "index", index } }'/>

Also, @Model is superfluous here, so I removed it.

You could pass the ViewData to partial view like below in ASP.Net Core MVC:

1.Model:

public class TestModel
{
    public string Employees { get; set; }
}

2.View(Create.cshtml):

@model TestModel
@{ 
    ViewData["index"] = true;
}
<partial name="_Emplyees" model="@Model" view-data="ViewData" />

3.Partial View:

<h3>Index: @ViewData["index"]</h3>
@model TestModel

@if ((bool)ViewData["index"])
{
    @Model.Employees
}
else
{
    <input asp-for="Employees" type="number" class="form-control" />
}

4.Controller:

public IActionResult Create()
{
    var testmodel = new TestModel() { Employees = "aaa" };
    return View(testmodel);
}

5.Result:

Reference:

How to use view-data pass the data to partial view

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/partial?view=aspnetcore-3.0#access-data-from-partial-views

See Partial views in ASP.NET Core and Partial Tag Helper in ASP.NET Core.

<partial name="Shared/_ProductPartial.cshtml" for="Product">

<partial name="_ProductViewDataPartial" for="Product" view-data="ViewData">

@await Html.PartialAsync("_ProductPartial", product)

Note:

When a partial view is instantiated, it receives a copy of the parent's ViewData dictionary.

As per the documentation, When a partial view is instantiated, it receives a copy of the parent's ViewData dictionary. Updates made to the data within the partial view aren't persisted to the parent view. ViewData changes in a partial view are lost when the partial view returns.

Checkout the documentation here

For me I have simply created a partial view, accessed it inside another view and used ViewData directly inside it.

~/Views/Shared/_PageTop.cshtml

<a asp-controller="Home" asp-action="Index">Go Back</a>
<h1>@ViewData["Title"]</h1>

~/Views/Create.cshtml

@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Create";
}
<partial name="_PageTop" />

So without passing anything to partial view _PageTop, I can access parent's Title property directly using @ViewData["Title"].