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In our series of interactive, educative and informative maps, we are happy to introduce district-wise map of NFHS data. To state the obvious, district map displays the district level progress of each indicator when we compare NFHS 5 and NFHS 4 data. But beyond obvious, the district map reveals the trends going beyond the boundaries of states. An example can be seen in the indicators of tobacco and alcohol consumption of NFHS 5. The alcohol consumption is higher in eastern India while tobacco consumption is higher in central India. This is a trend across the States.

 

First is that new districts are created almost every year somewhere in the country. Over a period of five years this number becomes considerable. The newly created districts are not available in previous survey. Even districts created in the period of actual survey are not available in the latest survey. Since we are using latest district map we find that data on 17 districts is not available for NFHS 5. For example Mulugu district of Telangana state was formed on February 17, 2019 and is not available in NFHS 5. Further difficulty is that when a district is created it is either bifurcated part of some district or carved out of 2-3 districts. Thus a of new district may alter the data of old districts. The scale of these issues can be gauged from the fact that there were 707 districts when NFHS-5 survey was conducted, compared to 640 in the NFHS-4 survey. https://datamaps.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2022/2/24/NFHS-district-wise-interactive-map.html