{"title":"Child Height in India: Facts and Interpretations from the NFHS-4, 2015-16.","authors":"Diane Coffey, Dean Spears","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An analysis of child height-for-age using the newly released data from the National Family Health Survey-4 indicates that the average child height increased by about four-tenths of a height-for-age standard deviation between 2005 and 2015. Although important, this increase is small relative to India's overall height deficit, and relative to economic progress; children in India remain among the shortest in the world. It is unsurprising that the increase in height-for-age has been modest because none of the principal factors responsible for India's poor child height outcomes have substantially improved over the last decade. Familiar patterns of regional, sex, and caste disadvantage are reflected in child height in 2015.</p>","PeriodicalId":53574,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Weekly","volume":"53 31","pages":"87-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10460522/pdf/nihms-1913520.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economic and Political Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
An analysis of child height-for-age using the newly released data from the National Family Health Survey-4 indicates that the average child height increased by about four-tenths of a height-for-age standard deviation between 2005 and 2015. Although important, this increase is small relative to India's overall height deficit, and relative to economic progress; children in India remain among the shortest in the world. It is unsurprising that the increase in height-for-age has been modest because none of the principal factors responsible for India's poor child height outcomes have substantially improved over the last decade. Familiar patterns of regional, sex, and caste disadvantage are reflected in child height in 2015.
根据美国国家家庭健康调查(National Family Health Survey-4)最新发布的数据，一项对儿童年龄身高的分析表明，在2005年至2015年期间，儿童的平均身高增加了约十分之四的年龄身高标准差。尽管这一增长很重要，但相对于印度的整体身高不足和经济进步而言，这一增长幅度很小;印度儿童仍然是世界上最矮的儿童之一。不足为奇的是，年龄身高的增长幅度不大，因为在过去十年中，导致印度儿童身高不高的主要因素都没有得到实质性改善。地区、性别和种姓劣势的常见模式反映在2015年的儿童身高上。
期刊介绍：
The Economic and Political Weekly, published from Mumbai, is an Indian institution which enjoys a global reputation for excellence in independent scholarship and critical inquiry. First published in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and since 1966 as the Economic and Political Weekly, EPW, as the journal is popularly known, occupies a special place in the intellectual history of independent India. For more than five decades EPW has remained a unique forum that week after week has brought together academics, researchers, policy makers, independent thinkers, members of non-governmental organisations and political activists for debates straddling economics, politics, sociology, culture, the environment and numerous other disciplines.
分享
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
扫码关注我们
