National Family Health Survey (NFHS)
The NFHS is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India.
Three rounds of the survey have been conducted since the first survey in 1992-93.
The survey provides state and national information for India on
Fertility
Infant and child mortality
Maternal and child health
The practice of family planning
Reproductive health
The survey provides state and national information for India on
Nutrition
Anaemia
Utilization and quality of health and family planning services.
Each successive round of the NFHS has had two specific goals:
To provide essential data on health and family welfare needed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and other agencies for policy and programme purposes.
Each successive round of the NFHS has had two specific goals:
To provide information on important emerging health and family welfare issues.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of India, designated the International Institute for Population Sciences(IIPS) Mumbai, as the nodal agency, responsible for providing coordination and technical guidance for the survey.
IIPS collaborated with a number of Field Organizations (FO) for survey implementation.
Each FO was responsible for conducting survey activities in one or more states covered by the NFHS.
Technical assistance for the NFHS was provided mainly by ICF (USA) and other organizations on specific issues.
The funding for different rounds of NFHS has been provided by USAID, DFID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, UNFPA, and MOHFW, GOI.
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