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Days after being kidnapped, Tripura girl rescued from Rajasthan
May 17, 2024 7:52 pm
The Tripura Police received a complaint of abduction of a minor girl on May 6.
How NFHS data can help craft policy for women’s financial inclusion
March 19, 2024 10:47 am
Financial inclusion awareness programmes must give special attention to women in households not headed by women
Malnutrition in Karnataka’s most impoverished district worse than found by NFHS: survey
March 06, 2023 6:45 pm
83% of boys and 75% of girls in the 11-18 age group from poor homes in Yadgir, one of the Centre's aspirational disticts, had BMIs that were too low.
Why we need to focus on nutrition, not hunger
October 28, 2022 8:43 am
Shailaja Chandra writes: The sensational use of the word hunger is abhorrent given the facts. But there is no denying that in India, nutrition, particularly child nutrition, continues to be problematic. Unlike the GHI, the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) does a good job of providing comparative state-level data including the main pointers that determine health and nutrition
NFHS 2019-2021: In Punjab’s hinterland, 3 males in every 10 anaemic; 2 in urban areas
August 19, 2022 3:10 am
In a presentation on the second day of a symposium organised at the PAU, Bains informed that the NFHS data presented a sorry figure of Punjab as far as prevalence of anaemia is concerned.
Explained: Indians' preference for sons, and why Meghalaya women prefer more daughters
May 19, 2022 6:33 am
For most Indians, an ideal family consists of more daughters than sons, NFHS data show. Women in matrilineal Meghalaya are the exception — but not the state's men.
Good, bad and doubtful
May 15, 2022 9:04 am
P Chidambaram writes: The big, breaking, bad news is that a little more than one-half of India’s population did not complete 10 years of school education — 59 per cent of women and 49. 8 per cent of men.
More Indians are anaemic than before, 67% children under 5 affected: NFHS-5
May 16, 2022 8:31 pm
According to the survey report, at least 67 per cent children (6-59 months) have anaemia as compared to 58.6 per cent in the last survey conducted in 2015-16.
NFHS data says Chandigarh has highest number of rich people in India: Find out where your state stands
May 12, 2022 7:18 pm
NFHS 5 has further found that Jains are the richest amongst the religious communities in India, with over 80% of its population falling in the highest wealth quintile and only 1.6% falling in the lowest.
Nineteen per cent households do not use any toilet facility: NFHS survey
May 11, 2022 3:21 pm
The survey found that 11 percent of urban households use a shared facility, compared with seven percent of rural households.
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