Major Studies & Surveys

The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is a large-scale, multi-round survey providing information on fertility, infant and child mortality, the practice of family planning, maternal and child health, reproductive health, nutrition, anemia, and utilization and quality of health and family planning services in India. This survey was conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India. Since the first survey in 1992–1993, three rounds of the NFHS have been conducted. Th...

Three rounds of District Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS) have been undertaken by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in the past (Round- I in 1998-99, Round-II in 2002-04, and Round-III in 2007-08) with the main objective to provide reproductive and child health related database at district level in India. The data from these surveys have been useful in setting the benchmarks and examining the progress the country has made after the implement...

The LASI Wave 1 is a nationally representative survey of 73,396 older adults age 45 and above across all states and union territories of India. The data collection activities for the wave 1 was carried between April 2017 to December 2018 (Sikkim state data collection was carried out in 2020-21).The first national wave of the LASI provides in-depth data on ageing, economic aspects, health status, social relationships, social support, family, and life satisfaction to help determine the speci...

The World Health Organization's Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) - is the part of a multi-country project conducted in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russian Federation and South Africa. The SAGE India sample is nationally representative and was implemented in six states – Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. WHO-SAGE is collecting data on adults aged 50 years and older, along with a smaller comparison sample of adults 18-49 years. The bas...

GATS India was conducted in 2009–2010 as a household survey of persons age 15 and above. A nationally representative probability sample was used to provide national and regional (North, West, East, South, Central and North-East) estimates by residence (urban and rural) and gender and state estimates by gender. The survey was designed to produce internationally comparable data on tobacco use and other tobacco control indicators using a standardized questionnaire, sample design, data collecti...

The Youth in India: Situation and Needs 2006-2007 study (the Youth Study) was conducted in 6 states -- Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, and covered 174,037 households and 50,848 youth. The Youth Study focused on married andunmarried young women and unmarried young men aged 15-24 and married men aged 15-29 in both urban and rural areas and covered all the districts of each selected state.

Study on the Causes and Consequences of Out-Migration from Middle Ganga Plain (MGP) covers several important features of an economically deprived region but with its own specificities of migration. Data were collected from more than 4000 households spread across 68 villages during the year 2018-2019. This study is an important source of information to understand the causes and consequences of out migration from Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh.The study focuses especially on the changes...