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þ Large scale multi-round household survey
þ 1st survey : 1992-1993
þ 2nd survey: 1998-1999
þ 3rd survey: 2005-2006
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þ inistry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt
Of India.
þ Nodal agency :International Institute for
Population Sciences, umbai.
þ IIPS collaborated with a number of Field
Organizations(FO) and Population Research
Centers(PRC)
þ Technical assistance: ORC acro International
USA and National AIDS Research Institute
(NARI) for HIV component of NFHS-3.
 
The funding for different rounds of NFHS has
been provided by
þ USAID,
þ DFID,
þ The Bill and elinda Gates Foundation,
þ UNICEF
þ UNFPA,
þ OHFW, GOI.
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þ To provide essential data on health and family
welfare needed by the inistry of Health and
Family Welfare and other agencies for policy
and program purposes,
þ To provide information on important emerging
health and family welfare issues.
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Collect information on
þ Fertility
þ Family planning
þ ortality
þ aternal and Child Health
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þ easurement of nutritional status of women.
þ Prevalence of anaemia throughout India.
þ Delhi and umbai tests done on children
(below age 3yrs) to measure lead content in the
blood.
þ easured the extent of iodine fortified cooking
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þ Family life education
þ Safe injections
þ Peri-natal mortality
þ Adolescent reproductive health.
þ High risk sexual behavior
þ Tuberculosis and alaria.
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þ Committee established for guidance and
consultation.
þ Sampling
þ Uniform questionnaire
þ Field procedures
þ Selecting and training survey organizations.
þ Translating data into electronic data files.
þ Preparation of reports.
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NFHS-1: systematic stratified sample of
households
2 stages in Rural areas: selection of villages
followed by households.
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towns, followed by urban blocks and finally
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þ Random selection of households within each
PSU.
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þ Wards selected with probability proportional to
population size sampling(PPS).
þ Randomly selecting one CEB (census
enumeration block) from sample ward.
þ Households are randomly selected within each
CEB.
 
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India¶s HIV epidemic.(NFHS 3)
þ Spurred the Government of India and
international agencies to greatly reduce
the official estimate of Indians living with HIV
from more than 5 million persons to 2.47
million.
þ Almost two-thirds of married women don¶t
know that condoms prevent HIV.
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þ Half of women lack proper care during
pregnancy and delivery
þ Infant mortality drops, but little progress on full
immunization coverage
þ Domestic violence widespread
þ alnutrition persists and anaemia is widespread (
70% in children age 6-59 months )