Overview of National Family Health Survey 5
The recent round of the survey is the National Family Health Survey 5 conducted by MoHFW in 2018-2019 and it’s not finished yet due to the COVID lockdown situations in the country. The main aim is to obtain reliable information about emerging health and family issues. National Family Health Survey 5 is receiving technical assistance from ICF International and financial assistance from United States Agency for International Development. The NFHS 5 has successfully captured the data during 2019-2020 and almost seven lakh households are being used to cover the data. MoHFW declared the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, as the main agency for all the rounds of NFHS.
Objectives of NFHS 5:
- The main goal of the National Family Health Survey-4 is to provide a detailed report on health and family welfare and also about the new ongoing and emerging issues in the country.
- To collect information about respondents’ characteristics such as employment, occupation, and education.
- Obtain fertility information such as birth intervals, age of first birth, ideal family size, knowledge of family planning, and desire for another child.
- Gather information about Maternal Health, such as Pregnancy Registration, Additional Care Coverage, Prenatal Ultrasound Testing
- Obtain information on nutrition in children, such as nutritional status, feeding practices, and food consumption in men and women.
- Obtain additional health issues such as random blood glucose levels, cancer screening tests, and random glucose measurements.
- To collect HIV/AIDS information such as HIV/AIDS knowledge, multiple sexual partners, and comprehensive HIV knowledge in both men and women.
- Gather information about women’s empowerment issues such as employment and earnings, control over women’s earnings, and women’s freedom of movement, among others.
- Collecting information about domestic violence, such as physical violence experience, age of first sexual violence experience, violence by wife on husband, types of violence, and so on.
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1 to NFHS-5)
The National Family Health Survey is a massive survey that takes place all over the country and the main goal of this survey is to collect key information about families in India that will help the Ministry of India design policies that will benefit the country’s most backward people groups. The National Family Health Survey began in 1992 and is the first round of the survey. Four additional surveys have been conducted to date, the most recent being the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS 5) which began in 2018-2019 but is not finished yet due to the COVID -19 lockdown situations in the country.
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