Lok Sabha Question No. 561 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-02-26
Subject: NFHS
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, ABHISHEK SINGH, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL, SHIVKUMAR CHANABASAPPA UDASI, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, R. PARTHIPAN, T. RADHAKRISHNAN, (ADV.) JOICE GEORGE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 561 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26 TH FEBRUARY , 2016

NFHS

## 561. SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

SHRI ABHISHEK SINGH:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

SHRI SHIVKUMAR UDASI:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

SHRI R. PARTHIPAN:

SHRI T. RADHAKRISHNAN:

ADV. JOICE GEORGE :

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has conducted National Family Health Survey (NFHS), 2015 - 16;
- (b) if so, the details thereof State/ UT - wise along with the key finding therein;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to revive the structure and time dura tion of NFHS in order to  make  it  more  effective  in  assessing  various  health  indicators  specially  maternal  a heath indicators; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA)

- (a) & (b): The fourth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS - 4), 2015 - 16 has been launched. The survey is carried out in two phases covering all States and Union territorie field work in the States / UTs covered in the first phase except Assam, hav e been completed and key results published for 13 States and 2 UTs.  A statement showing estimates of some indicators for these 15 States/UTs is annexed. The field work for Assam and States/UTs covered in the second phase has commenced.
- (c ) & (d): The Government has taken  a decision to dispense with various   health surveys similar nature with varying periodicity and to have an integrated health survey namely, 'National Family Health Survey' with a periodicity of three years,  to provide dist rict and above level data on    fertility,  infant  and  child  mortality,  family  planning  practices,  maternal  and  ch reproductive health, nutrition, anaemia, prevalence of HIV etc, covering all the States/U country  to  facilitate  availability of  data  and  to  assess  and  monitor  performance  of  health programmes / schemes at regular interval.

## Key indicators from NFHS - 4 (2015 - 16).

|   S.No. | State/UT                  |   Current use Family Planning (Any modern method) (%) |   of Mothers who had full antenatal (%) |   care Institutional births (%) |   Children aged 12- 23 months fully immunized (%) |   Children under 5 years who are stunted (%) |   Children under 5 years who are wasted (%) |   Children aged 6 - 59 months who are anaemic (<11.0g/dl) (%) |   Women aged 15- 49 years who are anaemic (<11.0 g/dl) (%) |
|---------|---------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Goa                       |                                                  24.8 |                                    63.4 |                            96.9 |                                              88.4 |                                         20.1 |                                        21.9 |                                                          48.3 |                                                       31.3 |
|       2 | Haryana                   |                                                  59.4 |                                    19.5 |                            80.5 |                                              62.2 |                                         34   |                                        21.2 |                                                          71.7 |                                                       62.7 |
|       3 | Karnataka                 |                                                  51.3 |                                    32.9 |                            94.3 |                                              62.6 |                                         36.2 |                                        26.1 |                                                          60.9 |                                                       44.8 |
|       4 | Meghalaya                 |                                                  21.9 |                                    23.5 |                            51.4 |                                              61.5 |                                         43.8 |                                        15.3 |                                                          48   |                                                       56.2 |
|       5 | Madhya Pradesh            |                                                  49.6 |                                    11.4 |                            80.8 |                                              53.6 |                                         42   |                                        25.8 |                                                          68.9 |                                                       52.5 |
|       6 | Sikkim                    |                                                  45.9 |                                    39   |                            94.7 |                                              83   |                                         29.6 |                                        14.2 |                                                          55.1 |                                                       34.9 |
|       7 | Tamil Nadu                |                                                  52.6 |                                    45   |                            99   |                                              69.7 |                                         27.1 |                                        19.7 |                                                          50.7 |                                                       55.1 |
|       8 | Tripura                   |                                                  42.8 |                                     7.6 |                            79.9 |                                              54.5 |                                         24.3 |                                        16.8 |                                                          48.3 |                                                       54.5 |
|       9 | Uttarakhand               |                                                  49.3 |                                    11.5 |                            68.6 |                                              57.7 |                                         33.5 |                                        19.5 |                                                          59.8 |                                                       45.2 |
|      10 | West Bengal               |                                                  57   |                                    21.8 |                            75.2 |                                              84.4 |                                         32.5 |                                        20.3 |                                                          54.2 |                                                       62.5 |
|      11 | Bihar                     |                                                  23.3 |                                     3.3 |                            63.8 |                                              61.7 |                                         48.3 |                                        20.8 |                                                          63.5 |                                                       60.3 |
|      12 | Andhra Pradesh            |                                                  69.4 |                                    43.9 |                            91.6 |                                              65.3 |                                         31.4 |                                        17.2 |                                                          58.6 |                                                       60   |
|      13 | Telangana                 |                                                  56.9 |                                    42.2 |                            91.5 |                                              68.1 |                                         28.1 |                                        18   |                                                          60.7 |                                                       56.7 |
|      14 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |                                                  48.3 |                                    53.6 |                            96.6 |                                              73.2 |                                         23.3 |                                        18.9 |                                                          49   |                                                       65.7 |
|      15 | Puducherry                |                                                  61.2 |                                    55.6 |                            99.9 |                                              91.3 |                                         23.7 |                                        23.6 |                                                          44.9 |                                                       52.4 |

## Annexure