NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title India National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2) 1998-99 Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography India (IND) Coverage type Country Time period covered 11/1998 - 12/1999 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representativeVerbal autopsy Summary Part of phase 4 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adult mortality, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Aplastic and other non-nutritional anemias, Ascariasis, Assets, Asthma, BCG vaccines, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Causes of death, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Community action, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Diet, Domestic violence, Drug consumption, Edema, Education, Education access, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, FFQ, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, Health care access, Health care services, Health care use, Health education, Health facilities, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hemolytic anemias, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Immunization, Income, Infant care, Infant mortality, Infrastructure, Interpersonal violence, Intimate partner violence, Iron, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Lead exposure, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Nutrition, Obesity, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Pain, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Population density, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Prevalence, Preventive interventions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Rabies, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Tetanus, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Tuberculosis, Upper respiratory infections, Verbal autopsy, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight Citation Contributors Macro International, Inc International Institute for Population Sciences (India) Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher Macro International, Inc Suggested citation International Institute for Population Sciences (India), Macro International, Inc. India Demographic and Health Survey 1998-1999. Calverton, United States of America: Macro International, Inc. GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 2, 2023