By grouping adolescents with adults, India’s surveys are routinely misestimating their health
One major attempt to correct this has been a one-off. Representational image. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters
India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data sources do not gather sufficient data specifically on adolescents, clubbing them instead with data on adults. This holds true across states, rural-urban residence and wealth groups, a June 2020
study says, showing up data gaps with wide-ranging implications for policy and programme design.
The key
National Family Health Survey does not collect health and nutrition data for school-age children (6-year to 9-year-old) and
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https://mybs.in/2Zc11Kv In India, only 59 per cent use mobile phones, representing some of the largest mobile gender gaps in the world A 2020 report by the GSM Association, a trade body that represents the interests of mobile network operators globally, says women in India are 28 per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone and 56 per cent less likely than men to use mobile Internet. Across all low and middle-income countries, 80 per cent of women are mobile owners, while in India, only 59 per cent use mobile phones, representing some of the largest mobile gender gaps in the world. Women remain 10 per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone in low-and middle-income countries, and 23 per cent less likely than men to use mobile Internet, said the report.
Women are people with an inalienable right to live the fullest of lives. Everything that prevents their life from being lived to the fullest extent of freedom, is a form of violence.
It’s time India thinks harder about our policies for children – our future depends on it
We must secure for children a life of dignity with equity and sustainability as a larger public good. Jan 16, 2021 · 09:30 am A migrant worker and his daughter wait to get food at a camp in Chennai in April. | Arun Sankar / AFP
This is an excerpt from the sixth edition of the India Exclusion Report, a collaborative effort involving institutions and individuals working with a shared notion of social and economic equity, justice and rights. The report seeks to inform public opinion around exclusion and the role of the state and to influence policy-making towards creating a more inclusive, equitable and just society. The annual publication is anchored by the Centre for Equity Studies and edited by its director, Harsh Mander.