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- At a workshop on the National Family Health Survey 2023-2024 (NFHS-6), experts recommended adding State-specific modules in future survey rounds to address demographic challenges particular to Tamil Nadu.
- Speaker S. Irudaya Rajan argued that only about 10 of the survey's 101 variables are useful for Tamil Nadu policy making and said the State's low fertility rate of 1.7 means issues like infertility deserve attention instead of fertility rates.
- Experts flagged concerns including child underweight (23.2%), stunting (20.7%), wasting (17.4), high obesity among adults, the survey's lack of questions on the elderly, and the need to study internal migration.
- Others suggested trimming the questionnaire to its core objectives and conducting State-level longitudinal surveys to examine issues like caesarean sections and the co-existence of malnutrition and obesity.
What to watch next
- Whether future NFHS rounds adopt State-specific modules
- Any new State-level longitudinal surveys in Tamil Nadu
- Further research on child nutrition and migrant living conditions
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Named India · National Family Health Survey · Tamil Nadu · Hari Singh · Indian Institute of Technology Madras · International Institute for Migration and Development · International Institute for Population Sciences · K. Navaneetham · K. Srinivasan · Madras Institute of Development Studies · Monalisha Chakraborty · M. Suresh Babu · Padmavathy Srinivasan
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