Annual Health Survey Clean Datasets and Documentation
- 1. University of Texas at Austin, r.i.c.e.
- 2. University of Texas at Austin
Description
Between July of 2010 and May of 2013, the Government of India conducted the Annual Health Survey in the Empowered Action Group states of north India. The purpose of the survey was to study the impact of reforms to maternal and child health services in the nine high-fertility, high-mortality states that comprise the EAG.
The AHS consists of a three-round panel that interviewed over 4 million households in each round, as well as a one-time Clinical, Anthropometric, and Bio-Chemical Survey. These data were released to the public in 2015 as a set of .csv files. Between December of 2019 and May of 2021, a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin assembled the publicly available microdata, constructed the necessary identifiers, cleaned the data, and released user-friendly versions of the constituent datasets on the University of Michigan’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
The documentation, code, and data shared here describes how the final datasets were constructed from the original files released by the Government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, what information the final datasets contain, how to use the panel structure of the data, and how to link the different datasets together. It also discusses some of the limitations of the data.
The original files released by the Government of India can be accessed here: https://zenodo.org/record/6062984#.YiZTG0ntwdU
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