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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.
Additional village, school, and medical facility interviews will be available
later.
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 survey was provided by
the National Institutes of Health,
grants R01HD041455 and R01HD046166.
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