Kandapan, Binayak http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2749-8235
Pradhan, Jalandhar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5998-0363
Pradhan, Itishree http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-7638
Article History
Accepted: 23 June 2023
First Online: 15 July 2023
Declarations
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: The National Family Health Survey, 2019-21 (NFHS-5) data received ethical approval from the relevant ethics boards. We did not obtain additional ethical approval or informed consent because we accessed the anonymized NFHS-5 data available in the public domain at ExternalRef removed.
: As per ethics protocols, in the NFHS, 2019-21 consent forms were administered to each household and age-eligible individual.
: None. The authors declare no potential competing interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.