Study of Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) India Wave-2 Project Survey in Rajasthan

Agency : International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai and World Health Organizatio

The Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) India Wave – 1 initiated by the World Health Organization was conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, as a part of multi-country in six of the seventy countries that participated in the World Health survey, 2003. SAGE is a longitudinal, cross-sequential household face-to-face survey. IIHMR was also selected as field agency for conducting SAGE Wave-1 in Rajasthan in the year 2007. IIHMR has been retained to conduct WHO-SAGE Wave- 2 in Rajasthan this year. The objectives of the survey are (i) to obtain reliable, valid and comparable data on levels of health on a range of key

domains for older adult population (50 years and above); (ii) to examine patterns and dynamics of age-related changes in health and well- being using longitudinal follow-up of survey respondents as they age, and to investigate socio-economic consequences of these health changes; (iii) to supplement and cross-validate self-reported measures of health and the anchoring vignette approach to improving comparability of self-reported measures through measured performance tests for selected health domains; (iv) to collect data on health examinations and biomarkers to improve reliability of data on morbidity, risk factors and monitor the effect of interventions; and (v) to obtain data on contraceptive use and its continuation, morbidity conditions during various stages of reproduction and responsiveness of health system towards these conditions for adult population in age 18-49. The Survey targeted 1800 individual interviews in the state of Rajasthan.


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