National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 Uttarakhand

Agency : International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) Mumbai, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Go

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India (MoHFW-GoI) is conducting CAPI based National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) in all 35 States and Union territories of India. NFHS is being undertaken with the main objective of strengthening India’s demographic and health database by providing information that is both valid and reliable.

MoHFW-GoI has entrusted IIHMR with the task of conducting field work for NFHS-4 in Uttarakhand. IIHMR has conducted district wise household survey in all the 13 districts of Uttarakhand from January to June 2015. As per the estimate, 14620 households from 731 PSUs of Uttarakhand were covered under this survey.

The sample spreads in all 13 districts. Each district had 40-70 Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) covering rural and urban representation as per the percentage of rural and urban population of the state. From each PSU pre-determined 22 households were surveyed.

One of the components of the household survey was Clinical Anthropometry Biochemical Testing (CAB). The CAB component included measurements of height, weight, blood pressure, hemoglobin and random blood sugar for men, women and children in the selected households. In the subsection of the households, dried blood spots (DBS) have also been taken from men and women for HIV testing.


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