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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. The first round of interviews were completed in 2004-5; data are publicly available through ICPSR. A second round of IHDS is reinterviewing these households in 2011-12 to examine changes in an era of rapid economic growth. The second round also adds interviews with young people aged 15-18 to examine the process of transition to adulthood.

IHDS has been jointly organized by researchers from the University of Maryland and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. 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 The Ford Foundation.

What's new (complete)
10 December 2012	IHDS invites papers for a user conference in New Delhi in June 2013. The conference will provide a forum for IHDS users to present their work and exchange information about the survey. Papers must contain new analysis of IHDS data and may cover any topic included in the survey. Please send an extended abstract of 2-4 pages to ihdsinfo@gmail.com by March 1, 2013. Researchers interested in learning about on-the-ground administration of the survey, are invited to a one day field training program preceding the conference. Limited local accommodation and domestic travel support is available to participants from outside Delhi.
30 November 2012	Publication list up on website A list of all publications and papers using IHDS data is now available from the publications dropdown menu.
15 February 2011	Brief of IHDS-II Survey A second wave of the IHDS was funded and is in the field during 2011-12.
1 February 2010	Book release Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transition has been published by Oxford University Press. See the book page to download a pdf copy.

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