Trends of adult height in India from 1998 to 2015: Evidence from the National Family and Health Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim of the study is to investigate the trends in adult height between two consecutive surveys of NHFS and explore differences across variables such as gender, wealth, social groups etc.

Methods

We used the NFHS-II (1998-99), NFHS-III (2005-2006) and NFHS-IV (2015-16) (all three for women and last two for men) data to examine the trends in average height. Comparison was done between the two age strata of 15-25 and 26-50 years, across both male and female, to assess the trends.

Results

Between NFHS-III and NFHS-IV, the average height of women in the age group of 15-25 showed a decline by 0.12 cm [95% CI, -0.24 to 0.00, p-0.051] while in the 26-50 years age strata it demonstrated significant improvement in the mean height by 0.13 cm [95% CI, 0.02 to 0.023, p-0.01

SUBMITTER: Choudhary KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8448320 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature