IHDS 2
The second round of IHDS was collected in 2011-2012, and includes and 85% reinterview rate of continuing families.
As with IHDS 1, IHDS 2 public data files are available from the Data Sharing for Demographic Research program of ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, at ICPSR Study 36151. Data are free to all users. You do not need to be a member of ICPSR. ICPSR asks that you create a login with your email id and a password. You can then download all data and documentation.
A Data Guide for this study is available as a web page and for download. The India Human Development Survey-II (IHDS-II), 2011-12 is a nationally representative, multi-topic survey of 42,152 households in 1,503 villages and 971 urban neighborhoods across India. These data are mostly re-interviews of households interviewed for IHDS-I (ICPSR 22626) in 2004-05. Two one-hour interviews in each household covered topics concerning health, education, employment, economic status, marriage, fertility, gender relations, social capital, village infrastructure, wage levels, and panchayat composition. Children aged 8-11 completed short reading, writing and arithmetic tests.
The IHDS-II data are assembled in fourteen datasets:
- Individual
- Household
- Eligible Women
- Birth History
- Medical Staff
- Medical Facilities
- Non Resident
- School Staff
- School Facilities
- Wage and Salary
- Tracking
- Village
- Village Panchayat
- Village Respondent