Dolui, Mriganka https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7568-0299
Sarkar, Sanjit https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5906-3098
Article History
Received: 12 August 2023
Accepted: 25 August 2025
First Online: 16 October 2025
Declarations
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: The study is based on secondary data from the 2019-21 National Family and Health Survey, which is the Indian version of the demographic health survey. The dataset has no personal identification or information of the survey participants. All guidelines were respected, including treating data as confidential and not trying to identify individual respondents. Therefore, no ethical approval is required for conducting this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.