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Indian surveys undercount persons with disability because of the way they define those with disabilities and frame questions.

Based on data from 1,162 self-reported representative surveys on women's contraceptive use, the researchers used modelling to produce national estimates of various family planning indicators.

Arunachal Pradesh fares the worst among all states and Maharashtra the best

Half of women without access live in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, says global research

Indian surveys undercount persons with disability because of the way they define those with disabilities and frame questions, leading to misleading estimates being used to frame welfare policies and programmes.

This Viewpoint discusses the need to expand early cancer detection to include both screening and symptom detection to achieve the goal of diagnostic excellence

This paper is based on the author’s MPhil thesis that was submitted to the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai under the supervision of M H Suryanarayana.

With 73 per cent of the children aged between 12 and 23 months covered with all basic vaccinations, the rest 27 per cent infants were not vaccinated in Ludhiana district, a national survey has revealed.

Ludhiana district has ranked second last in the state with 90 per cent of institutional deliveries during the past five years, a national survey has revealed.

Around 22% of the global workforce over the next three decades is expected to come from India. Experts say unemployment in India will be "a huge problem" if the country doesn't provide more skilled workers.