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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NFHS Data Shows More men Eating Non-veg Than Before

NFHS Data Shows More men Eating Non-veg Than Before

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published Published on May 17, 2022   modified Modified on May 19, 2022

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According to the data, an overwhelming 83.4% of men and 70.6% of women in the 15-49 years age group have non-vegetarian food daily, weekly, or occasionally.

More people, especially men, are eating non-vegetarian food in India amid the ongoing debate over the consumption of non-vegetarian food. An analysis of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data by The Indian Express shows that the proportion of Indian men who consume non-vegetarian food has gone up sharply in the six years between 2015-16 and 2019-21

According to NFHS-5, which was conducted in 2019-21, the proportion of men aged 15-49 years who have never consumed non-vegetarian food, defined as ‘fish, chicken or meat’ in the survey, stood at 16.6% in 2019-21. It shows a decrease of five percentage-point from the 21.6% of men of the same age group who never ate non-vegetarian food during NFHS-4 (2015-16). 

However, the data also reveals a skew based on gender as the proportion of women in the same age group (15-49 years) who never consumed ‘fish, chicken or meat’ was 29.4% in 2019-21. This is a marginal dip from the 29.9% figure from 2015-16, the report said.

Moreover, the proportion of women who consumed non-vegetarian food on a weekly basis went up from 36.6% in 2015-16 to 39.3% 2019-2021, whereas, for men, it went up from 43.2% to 49.3% over the same period.

In total, an overwhelming 83.4% of men and 70.6% of women in the 15-49 years age group have non-vegetarian food daily, weekly, or occasionally, The Indian Express reported. Compared to this, during NHFS-4, 78.4% of men and 70% of women in the same age group consumed non-vegetarian food, the report said.

In the six-year period between 2015-16 and 2019-21, Sikkim saw the highest rise in the proportion of men who consumed fish, chicken or meat at least once a week, from 49.1% to 76.8%. The figure declined the most in Tripura, going from 94.8% to 76.1%, the report showed. Both are states belonging to North-East India.

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Newsclick.in, 17 May, 2022, https://www.newsclick.in/NFHS-Data-Shows-More-men-Eating-Non-veg-Than-Before


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