The Council for Social Development (CSD) has come out with a comprehensive statistical compendium providing a detailed picture of the health and demographic status in Telangana.
Released by Finance department special chief secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, the compendium is based on two rounds of national family health survey – round 4 (2015-16) and round 5 (2019-20) conducted after the formation of the State. Published for the Planning department, the compendium envisages strengthening the database of the new State giving a holistic picture of progress in terms of demographic and health indicators of each district in the State.
It would be useful in understanding the status of district-wise performance and where the districts stand as it had identified the highest burden districts in terms of each indicator with a base to the highest performing district. According to the CSD, data pertaining to 99 indicators was captured at the district level in indicators such as population and household profile, characteristics of adults, marriage and fertility, infant and child mortality rates, use of family planning methods, child vaccination, vitamin A supplementation, and nutritional status among adults.
