Lok Sabha Question No. 2209 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-12
Subject: Datasets for Healthcare Sector
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: Shri Raja Ram Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2209

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.03.2025

## DATASETS FOR HEALTHCARE SECTOR

2209. SHRI RAJA RAM SINGH:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION be pleased to state:

- (a) the reasons for non-availability of datasets for healthcare sector unlike industry sectors;
- (b) whether  the  Ministry  intends  to  propose  any  survey  on  Indian hospitals and availability of datasets;
- (c) if  so,  the  details  thereof along  with  the initiatives taken in this regard and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (d) the  details  of  measures  taken  by  the  Ministry  in  light  of  nonavailability of  datasets  for  healthcare  sector  in  addressing supply-side challenges and bottlenecks; and
- (e) the time by which the Government is planning to release data on healthcare sector accessible to the public?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS  AND  PROGRAMME  IMPLEMENTATION;  MINISTER  OF STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  OF  THE  MINISTRY  OF  PLANNING AND  MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  CULTURE  [RAO INDERJIT SINGH]

(a) to (e): The National Statistics Office  (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics  &  Programme  Implementation  (MoSPI)  is  responsible  for conducting  large  scale  sample  surveys  on  various  socio-economic subjects  on  All  India  basis.  In  this  sequence,  the  Household  Social Consumption:  Health  is  conducted  in  every  five-year  interval.  The objective of this survey is to generate basic quantitative information on the health sector. A vital component is the information relevant to the determination of the prevalence rate of morbidity among various age-sex groups in different regions of the country. Further, measurement of the extent of use of health services provided by the government is an indispensable part of the exercise. Special attention is  given  to  hospitalization  or  medical  care  received  as  in-patient  of medical  institutions.  The  ailments  for  which  such  medical  care  is sought, the extent of use of government hospitals, and the expenditure  incurred  on  treatment  received  from  public  and  private sectors, are all to be investigated by the survey. Break-up  of expenditure  by  various  heads  is  to  be  estimated  for  expenses  on medical care received both as in-patient and otherwise. Besides, the survey  also  ascertains  the  extent  of  use  of  private  and  public hospitals for childbirth, the cost incurred, and the extent of receipt of pre-natal and post-natal care by women who undergo childbirth. The report of Household Social Consumption: Health conducted in 2017-18 is available on MoSPI's website. Further,  the  Ministry  of  Health  and  Family  Welfare  (MoH&FW)  also conducts an integrated survey namely National Family Health Survey (NFHS) with a periodicity of around three years. The survey provides data  on  health  and  family  welfare  and  associated  domains  like characteristics  of  the  population;  fertility  and  fertility  preferences; family planning; infant and child mortality; maternal and child health; nutrition; morbidity and healthcare; women's empowerment, etc. The NFHS-5 was conducted during 2019-21 and its Report was released in 2022.

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