Estimation of District Level TFR of Eight EAG States and Assam from NFHS-4, 2015-16
Authors:
A.A. Jayachandran, and Faujdar Ram
Source:
Demography India, 48(1): 63-73
Topic(s):
Fertility
Country:
Asia
India
Published:
JUN 2019
Abstract:
Measuring district level total fertility rate is an important activity as the
progress of district level health interventions need to be monitored from time to time.
The third round of Annual Health Survey conducted in 2012-13 estimated the fertility
rates for districts of eight EAG states and Assam and these estimates are the latest
official fertility rates for districts available until now. This paper tried to address the
information gap exist in the country by directly estimating district level total fertility
rates in these states. Using the birth histories data of the latest round of NFHS-4
conducted in 2015-16, and the STATA tfr 2 procedure we directly estimated district
level fertility rate for eight EAG states and Assam and presented along with confidence
interval. Results obtained in such exercise are likely to be useful for programme
monitoring of Government sponsored flagship programmes like Mission Parivar Vikas
implemented by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Aspirational Districts
Programme implemented by NITI Aayog. The paper also suggests to consider these
estimates as baseline levels and urge forthcoming series of NFHS to produce district
level fertility rates.
Keywords: TFR, NFHS, MoHFW, Mission Parivar Vikas programme and EAG states.