Held for the first time in 1992, the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) offers key details about the state of health of a place and the factors that apparently help societies to stay healthy. Women continue to remain the prime focus of this survey for obvious reasons. The better educated woman with improved facilities in and around household will be able to raise a better family.
Last week, the fifth edition of the survey was made public in Delhi. Though the status of the Jammu and Kashmir changed since the NFHS-4 was carried out, the population, however, remains the same. These are the key findings of the survey and for better understanding comparisons have been mentioned.
While the NFHS-3 pertains to 200506, the NFHS-4 belongs to the period of 2015-16. The latest survey, the NFHS-5 offers the data about 2019-20. This is what the survey has found out in Jammu and Kashmir.
The sex ration, females per 1000 of men are slightly compromised. It was 976 in NFHS-3 and then fell to 972. Now it is at 948. Though not low, there is a possibility of some district or a few blocks actually not implementing anti-sex determination law seriously. A campaign and a harsh system helped undo the mess in two tehsils of Jammu and Kashmir last time.
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