OBTAINING
DATA
NFHS
administered three types of questionnaires: the Household Questionnaire,
the Womans Questionnaire and the Village Questionnaire.
The Village Questionnaire was administered only in the rural areas.
For each state and at national level three data files are associated
with these questionnaires. Also available are data files with
information on children born during the three years preceding
the survey (last two children only) along with mother's basic
characteristics.
Data files are available
in user-friendly formats for SPSS, SAS, and STATA users. Data
files are available in three formats: the flat format, the rectangular
format and the hierarchical format. The SPSS, SAS, and STATA include
files are also distributed with the data set. The data set comes
with elaborate documentation regarding variables and related descriptions.
All
the data files for 24 states and the National Capital Territory
of Delhi, as well as the National data set of NFHS-1 are published
by 1995. The data files for NFHS-2 are published for the states
for which final report has been published. Announcements regarding
release of data set will be given regularly on this site in our
What's New? section.
All the data published so far are available for download through
Demographic Health Survey
data distribution system. The DHS website belongs to ORC
Macro. For more details on obtaining and downloading NFHS
data please visit:
http://www.measuredhs.com