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India | Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in India Report (based on NFHS-3)

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
2009
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The survey provides trend data on key indicators of family welfare, maternal and child health, and nutrition, and includes information on several new topics such as use of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, HIV prevalence, attitudes toward family life education for girls and boys, men¿s involvement in maternal care, high-risk sexual behaviour,and health insurance coverage. NFHS-3 collected information from a nationally representative sample of 124,385 women age 15-49 and 74,369 men age 15-54 in 109,041 households. This report presents key findings on gender equality and women's empowerment in India.

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