-Down to Earth NFHS counts only certain women, who belong to specific demographic categories. There is a bias in it, say experts There are 1,020 women per 1,000 men in India according to the recently released Fifth Edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5). Such a sex ratio has not been recorded in any of the previous four editions of the NFHS. But demography experts say it is not the time...
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MSP is Insurance Against Anarchy in Future: Economist Sukhpal Singh -Ajaz Ashraf
-Newsclick.in Answers to all the questions you are likely to have about the Minimum Support Price and the controversy surrounding it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hope that his promise to repeal the three new farm laws will have the protesting farmers to promptly fold their tents and leave Delhi has been belied. The farmer unions have instead declared that they are not going to call off their one-year stir until the Union...
More »Falling fertility, rising anaemia stand out in national health Survey -Nandlal Mishra and Akancha Singh
-Livemint.com From a replacement-level fertility rate to rising anaemia prevalence, here’s what the latest round of the National Family Health Survey has found on key health indicators across India’s states India hit a major demographic milestone in the last two years as its total fertility rate slipped below the replacement level for the first time, show the findings of the latest National Family Health Survey. The replacement mark—2.1 children per woman—is the...
More »The key demographic transitions captured by the 5th round of NFHS -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times NFHS-5, the most comprehensive Survey on socio-economic and health indicators in the country, shows some surprising demographic transitions. The Union health ministry released the summary findings of the fifth round of the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-5), conducted in two phases between 2019 and 2021, on November 24. NFHS is the most comprehensive Survey on socio-economic and health indicators in the country. While the results of the first phase...
More »More than half of India's children and women anaemic: NFHS-5 Survey -Ruchika Chitravanshi
-Business Standard On a positive note, the number of women aged 15-49 having bank or savings accounts they themselves used, rises to 78.6% compared to 58% in the previous Survey; improvement in nutrition among kids and adults Anaemia among children and adults has worsened, with more than half of women and children reported to be anaemic in the fifth national family health Survey 2019-21 of fourteen states released on Wednesday. Among children from...
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