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India Survey on Infant and Child Mortality 1978

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
India Survey on Infant and Child Mortality 1979
Geography 
India (IND)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
07/1978 - 12/1978
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Survey on Infant and Child Mortality was a special survey undertaken within a sample of the units measured in the Sample Registration System (SRS). The survey was conducted at the same time as the SRS half-yearly survey, from July through December 1978. The purpose of this survey was to gather data on infant and child mortality, to investigate child health care, and to learn more about the socioeconomic characteristics of households. The survey took place in rural and urban areas throughout India.

The data were collected through in-person interviews. The questionnaire focuses on the infrastructure of the communities participants lived in, demographic characteristics of the families, and birth histories of children born between 1973 and 1978.

Keywords 
BCG vaccines, Child mortality, Disability, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Family composition, Family size, Food expenditures, Health care access, Health care use, Health status, Hearing loss, Household expenditures, Housing conditions, Immunization, Infant mortality, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Living conditions, Marital status, Marriage age, Maternal care, Milk, Mortality, Occupations, Personal health expenditures, Polio vaccines, Religion, Roads, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Summary birth history, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Vision loss, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 7, 2022