Bansal, Anjali
Dwivedi, Laxmi Kant
Shirisha, P.
Article History
Received: 31 January 2022
Accepted: 28 July 2022
First Online: 19 August 2022
Declarations
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: Present study was based on a large dataset that is publicly available of NFHS, India conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India with ethical standards being complied with including informed consent obtained from participants. NFHS 4 survey has been conducted by IIPS under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), the approval for NFHS-4 was obtained from the ethics review board of the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India and ICF International Review Board (IRB). A written informed consent was obtained from the participants for participation in this survey before commencement of the interview. Confidentiality was maintained as NFHS-4 published gathered data with no identifiable information of the survey participants. NFHS-4 is the anonymous, publicly available dataset, and is accessible upon request from the DHS Program at ExternalRef removed.
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