India Human Development Survey (IHDS)
The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) is a nationally representative, multi-topic survey of 41,554 households in 1,503 villages and 971 urban neighborhoods across India. Two one-hour interviews in each household covered health, education, employment, economic status, marriage, fertility, gender relations and social capital. Children aged 8-11 completed short reading, writing and arithmetic tests and village, school, and medical facility interviews were held. Fieldwork began in November 2004 and was mostly completed by October 2005. The IHDS team, led by University of Maryland sociologists Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman, will extend their seminal work in India with a second wave of surveys set to begin next year under two new grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) totaling $5.7 million.
Photos courtesy of Sonalde Desai, professor of sociology at the University of Maryland.
Dec 3, 2010
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