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Article History

Received: 30 November 2022

Revised: 25 July 2023

Accepted: 25 July 2023

First Online: 10 August 2023

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: The organization committee of the survey received ethical approval from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to collect the human data. The Indian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is known as National Family Health Survey (NFHS) in India. We used published large-scale national data where every respondent was anonymized in the data set itself. As it is not based on a primary survey- cases, we were not required to do any anonymization in the study as the data is already made in that fashion following all ethical protocols. Thereby, it is certified that all applicable institutional and governmental regulations concerning the ethical use of human volunteers were followed during the course of the survey. Also, verbal as well as written informed consent was obtained from all the participants. The informed consent was taken from their parent or legal guardian. The dataset is publicly available, thus, consent for publication is not applicable for the study.