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New ICMR Funding Framework Aims to Reshape India’s Health Research Landscape
That is the figure the Government of India has allocated to the Indian Council of Medical Research for the 2026–27 financial…
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DLHS versus NFHS data for district fertility analysis
A district fertility estimate can look deceptively precise: one number, one district name, perhaps a neat comparison across…
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DLHS raw data versus aggregated reports for district analysis
A district health percentage can look wonderfully clear in a fact sheet: institutional delivery at one level, antenatal care at…
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The Upside Down Tickets: Booking Traps for RCH Delegates
A €3 surcharge. A 15–25% discount left unclaimed. A no-refund clause buried in the checkout flow. For RCH delegates arranging a…
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RCH indicator mapping: a spatial analysis roadmap
India's maternal and child health machinery operates across 766 districts, yet a single metric — the Coverage Gap Index — exposes…
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DLHS Weighting Errors: How to Avoid Wasted Research Time
720,320 households across 601 districts. That was the scope of the District Level Household Survey in its third wave, a dataset…
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Population Analytics: how to compare your options
India’s demographic data systems do not measure the same population, at the same geographic scale, or on the same timetable. The…
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DLHS and NFHS data discrepancies: how to reconcile them
The problem with comparing DLHS and NFHS data is not that one survey is “right” and the other is “wrong.” The problem is that…
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Engineering training in promoting holistic health and population stability
By The Hans India, the headline "Engineering training in promoting holistic health and population stability" appeared on 31 July…
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DLHS missing data imputation methods: choosing the right approach for survey analysis
A district-level reproductive-health estimate can move for reasons that have nothing to do with health. A cluster of ages…
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Fertility rate trends in India: tracking regional decline drivers through DLHS data
India’s total fertility rate has moved from 2.4 children per woman in the 2011 Sample Registration System series to 2.0 in NFHS-5…
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DLHS dataset merging: a step-by-step researcher roadmap
DLHS-3 contains records from 720,320 households and 643,944 ever-married women aged 15–49. Those figures alone rule out casual…
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Demographic survey analysis software for Indian data
Three years ago, I sat with a district health officer outside Nashik, working through why two neighbouring blocks reported…
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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…