The District Level Household and Facility Survey is one of the largest ever demographic and health surveys carried out in India, with a sample size of about seven lakh households covering all the districts of the country. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of India, initiated District Level Household Surveys (DLHS) in 1997 to provide district level estimates on health indicators to assists policy makers and program administrators in decentralized planning, monitoring and evaluation. The present District Level Household Survey (DLHS-3) was conducted in 2007-08 and is third in the series preceded by DLHS -1 in 1998-99 and DLHS-2 in 2002-04. DLHS-3, like other two earlier rounds, is designed to provide estimates on maternal and child health, family planning and other reproductive health services. In addition, DLHS-3 provides information related to the programmes of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). In the household questionnaire, information on all members of the household and
socio-economic characteristics of the household, assets possessed, number of marriages and deaths in the household since January 2004, etc. were collected. The ever-married women’s questionnaire contained information on women’s characteristics, maternal care, immunization and childcare, contraception and fertility preferences, reproductive health including knowledge about HIV/AIDS. The unmarried women’s questionnaire contained information on women’s characteristics, family life education, awareness about reproductive health and contraception, and HIV/AIDS, etc. The village questionnaire contained information on availability of health, education and other facilities in the village, and whether the facilities are accessible throughout the year. The health facility questionnaires contained information on human resources, infrastructure, and services. For the first time, population-linked facility survey has been conducted in DLHS-3. At the district level, all Community Health Centres and District Hospital were covered. Further, all Sub-Centres and Primary Health Centres which were expected to serve the population of the selected Primary Selected Unit were also covered. Fieldwork for India was conducted during December 2007-December 2008.
A fact sheet has been published on the web (www.nrhm-mis.nic.in) and it gives information on the key indicators and trends for the India. At state level, separate fact sheets are available for all 31 states (excluding Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland) of the India. Even similar information is available for almost all the districts of India.
As per all India provisional fact sheet, mean household size has increased to 5.1 from 4.8 which was observed for the year 2002-04. Literacy is about 72% for age 7+ population and number of children below age 15 years are nearly one third of the population. About 70% 0f the total households (over 58% in Rural Areas and over 92% in Urban Areas) have elecricity. Toilet facility access has increased and is with about 47% households. Piped drinking water is being used by about 40% of the household in their own dwelling/plot.
Mow mean age at marriage for boys is decreased to 24.2 years,while it is increased to 19.9 years in case of girls as per DLHS-3. Now over 22% of boys marry below the legal age of 21 years whereas 21.5 % of girls are marrying below legal age of 18 years in India.
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