National Family Health Survey (NFHS) - 2019-21

The National Family Health Survey 2019-2021, the fifth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India and each state and union territory. Like NFHS-4, NFHS-5 also provides district-level estimates for many important indicators. The contents of NFHS-5 are similar to NFHS-4 to allow comparisons over time. However, NFHS-5 includes some new topics, such as preschool education, disability, access to a toilet facility, death registration, bathing practices during menstruation, and methods and reasons for abortion. The scope of clinical, anthropometric, and biochemical testing has also been expanded to include the measurement of waist and hip circumferences and the age range for the measurement of blood pressure and blood glucose has been expanded. However, HIV testing has been dropped. The NFHS-5 sample has been designed to provide national, state, and union territory, and district-level estimates of various indicators covered in the survey. However, estimates of indicators of sexual behavior, husband's background and woman's work, HIV and AIDS knowledge, attitudes and behavior, and domestic violence are available only at the state and union territory and national level