rsibi / india-nfhs

analyze India's National Family Health Survey r.e. women's empowerment

india-nfhs:

Slack: #p-india-nfhs

Project Description: This D4D project aims to glean insights from India's National Family Health Survey datasets. Perhaps generally around women's empowerment issues.

Project Co-Leads / Maintainers: @lukewolcott / (more needed!)

Outline:

Getting started | Background | Questions to pursue | First steps

Getting started:

• We welcome contributions from first timers!
• Browse our help wanted issues or First Steps below. See if there is anything that interests you.
• Core maintainers and project leads are responsible for reviewing and merging all pull requests. Need to practice working with github in a group setting? Checkout github-playground.
• Updates to documentation or readme are greatly appreciated and make for a great first PR. They do not need to be discussed in advance and will be merged as soon as possible.

Background:

The NFHS is conducted about every 10 years. The 4th one, NFHS-4, was conducted 2015-2016 and the full datasets will be available "later this year". At the moment, state-level and county-level data is available in PDF factsheets.

The NFHS-3, conducted 2005-2006, is available in full from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program. So are the two earler NFHSs. The datasets come from three questionnaires: female, male, and household. One must register to use this data, so we can't put it up on a public repo but the team can share it privately (data.world or Dropbox?).

Possible questions to pursue:

• The Hindustan Times created a "Women's Empowerment Index" from questions 101--108 in the state-level data, and has done some analysis with it. Is this an accurate index, or could it be improved? What trends do we see? How does this index correlate with other variables (like alcohol consumption)?

• What other trends and patterns do we see in the state-level NFHS-4 data?

• The NFHS-3 (from 2005-2006) household questionnaire gathers hundreds of variables on 100k households, including some health data. Can we use these household characteristics to predict if the household head is male or female? Or if the household is likely to have clean water? Can we predict if the household is at risk of alcoholism? How do household characteristics cluster the data?

• Within a few months, the full NFHS-4 (from 2015-2016) will become available. Can we generate interesting models and questions, so that when it drops we can easily investigate the ten years of change?

• Can we connect the NFHS-3 women's and men's health questionnaire data with World Bank data?

• What would you like to know?

First steps:

• For now, the factsheets folder has the 37 state-level factsheet PDFs (and one India.pdf for the country as a whole). We need to extract the tables from these PDFs. And then explore these with EDA to generate new questions. The eight questions 101--108 are related to women's empowerment.

• The nfhs-3-metadata folder has some metadata for the NFHS-3 household questionnaire. Stay tuned for access to full dataset (data.world or Dropbox?)