{"id":154809,"date":"2021-12-20T20:15:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=154809"},"modified":"2021-12-20T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T14:47:28","slug":"reading-sex-ratio-trends-in-nfhs-5-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reading-sex-ratio-trends-in-nfhs-5-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading sex ratio trends in NFHS-5 data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The NFHS data is a well-structured and unique one. Further, the findings of NFHS and the Census figure are no means comparable.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 95.1336%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nfhs-5-and-its-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>About the NFHS<\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-family-health-nfhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is National Family Health Survey (NFHS)?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>What do the NFHS findings signify on the sex ratio?<\/h5>\n<p>NFHS-5 results indicate an improvement over the last four years from 991 women in 2015-16 to 1,020 women in 2019-21 for every 1,000 men. This data is significant because,<\/p>\n<p>-The NFHS is the world\u2019s largest household survey, (over 6,36,699 households), hence it has better reliability than any other national survey.<\/p>\n<p>-The data has to be compared to similar surveys. For instance, Nationally representative household surveys like the second round of the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) shows a similar trend \u2014 1,004 women for 1,000 men in 2011-12, an improvement over the first round.<\/p>\n<p>-Though the NFHS data may not be a sole indicator of gender balance, there can be no denying the fact that the gender divide in many areas has narrowed.<\/p>\n<p>-The progress in sex ratio as evidenced by the comparison between the last and the latest round of NFHS clearly conveys the improving sex ratio situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is premature to confirm a balanced sex ratio in India, the NFHS results do indicate progress towards that end.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-nine-lives-of-indias-national-family-health-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The nine lives of India\u2019s National Family Health Survey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0This post is based on the article <strong>\u201cReading sex ratio trends in NFHS-5 data\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>20th December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The NFHS data is a well-structured and unique one. Further, the findings of NFHS and the Census figure are no means comparable. Must read:\u00a0NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise About the NFHS Read here:\u00a0What is National Family Health Survey (NFHS)? What do the NFHS findings signify on the sex ratio? NFHS-5 results indicate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reading-sex-ratio-trends-in-nfhs-5-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading sex ratio trends in NFHS-5 data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-154809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}