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India Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
India National Family Health Survey 4 (NFHS-4)
Geography 
India (IND)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/2015 - 06/2016
Series or system 
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
Summary 

The India Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2015-2016, also known as the India National Family Health Survey 4 (NFHS-4), is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. Topics commonly covered in DHS include: child and maternal health, family planning, nutrition, health behavior and knowledge, health care access and use, and immunization. For the 2015-2016 India DHS, 699,686 women ages 15-49 and 103,525 men ages 15-54 were successfully interviewed from 601,509 households.

State and district level fact sheets, questionnaires and survey documentation are also available from the National Institute for Populations Sciences (India): http://rchiips.org/NFHS/about.shtml

Keywords 
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