Levels and Differentials in Maternal Mortality in Rural India: New Evidence from Sisterhood Data

P. N. Mari Bhat (mari@iegindia.org)

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Abstract: Policy initiatives for reproductive health are often based on judgments made on the basis of a small, selective cross-section of the population. The Human Development Profile Survey (HDPS) conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research in 1994 used a method called ‘sisterhood method’ developed by (Graham et.al, 1989) to collect Maternal mortality derived from the NCAER-HDI survey (1994) for rural areas of India by broad geographical regions and by some selected background characteristics of respondents are presented.

Keywords: sisterhood; maternal mortality; rural; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-04
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