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The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) is a nationally representative, multi-topic survey of 41,554 households in 1503 villages and 971 urban neighborhoods across India. Two one-hour interviews in each household covered health, education, employment, economic status, marriage, fertility, gender relations, and social capital. Children aged 8-11 completed short reading, writing and arithmetic tests. Village, school, and medical facility interviews are also available. Fieldwork began in November 2004 and was mostly completed by October 2005. IHDS was jointly organized by researchers from the University of Maryland and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. Funding for the 2004-2005 survey was provided by the National Institutes of Health, grants R01HD041455 and R01HD046166.

A second round of IHDS in 2011-12 will reinterview these households to examine changes in the well being of Indian households in an era of rapid economic growth. It will also add an interview with young people aged 15-18 to examine the process of transition to adulthood in India. Funding for the second round of this survey is provided by the National Institutes of Health, grants R01HD041455 and R01HD061048. Additional funding is provided by a grant from The Ford Foundation.

What's new (complete)
15 February 2011	Brief of IHDS-II Survey
1 July 2010	Second wave funded by NICHD A second wave of the IHDS was funded and will be fielded in 2011-12.
17 February 2010	Public Data Release 3 now available New IHDS public data files are available from ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, at ICPSR Study 22626. See the Data page for details.
1 February 2010	Book release Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transition has been published by Oxford University Press. See the Report page for details.

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