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DLHS indicator definition shifts: trend analysis traps
A percentage point is not necessarily a population change. In the District Level Household Survey series, a difference between…
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DLHS district boundary shifts: avoiding mapping traps
India moved from 339 districts in 1961 to 593 in 2001, 640 in the 2011 Census, and roughly 720 by 2020. Any longitudinal district…
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DLHS sample weights: when to normalize district data
A district health officer opens a DLHS-3 indicator table and sees a sharp gap in antenatal care coverage between two blocks. A…
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Demographic data paths: which Indian survey fits your study?
When I sit with a junior researcher who has just been handed a district health profile to interpret, the conversation almost…
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DLHS and NFHS data anomalies: how to avoid analysis traps
DLHS-3 was completed across 601 districts. NFHS-5 reports results for 707 districts. Treating those two counts as a continuous…
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DLHS versus NFHS: which Indian health survey to choose
In the work that crosses my desk — manuscripts to review, planning consultations with district programme officers, teaching…
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District Level Household Survey data variables: seven pre-analysis checks
A DLHS spreadsheet can fail before the first regression runs. Not because the analyst cannot code. Because the file is being…