- Publication ID
- OD59
- Publication Date
- August 2009
- Language
- English
- Country(s)
- India
- Document Type
- Other Documents
- Publication Topic(s)
- Youth
- Author(s)
- Sulabha Parasuraman, Sunita Kishor, Shri Kant Singh and Y. Vaidehi
A Profile of Youth in India (PDF, 4104K)
Abstract:
This report uses data from the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) to provide a profile of youth in India—who they are, what they know, what they think, how they behave, and what their health and nutritional status is—that is relevant for population, health, and nutrition programmes and for policy makers. Youth are defined as women and men age 15-24. All analyses in this report provide information separately for women and men, and most also do so by age (15-19 and 20-24) and marital status, in order to better highlight the different needs of these groups.
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