| Multi Dimensional Deprivation in India during and after the Reforms: Do the Household Expenditure and the Family Health Surveys Present Consistent Evidence? |
| Authors: |
Ankita Mishra and Ranjan Ray |
| Source: |
Social Indicators Research, Volume (Year): 110 (2013), Issue (Month): 2 (January), Pages: 791-818 |
| Topic(s): |
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Environment and natural resources
Nutrition
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| Country: |
Asia
India
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| Published: |
JAN 2013 |
| Abstract: |
This paper uses the recent approach of multidimensional deprivation measures to provide a
comprehensive and wide ranging assessment of changes to living standards in India during
the period, 1992/93-2004/5.This covers the reforms and the immediate post reforms time
periods. The study is based on the simultaneous use of two parallel data sets, namely the NSS
and NFHS data sets covering proximate rounds and near identical time periods. The study is
conducted both at regionally disaggregated levels and by socio economic groups. The
deprivation dimensions range widely from the conventional expenditure dimensions to non
expenditure dimensions such as access to drinking water and clean fuel, to health dimensions
such as child stunting and the mother’s BMI. The use of decomposable deprivation measures
allows the identification of regions, socio economic groups and deprivation dimensions that
are contributing more than others to total deprivation.
Key Words: Multidimensional Deprivation, Social Exclusion, Decomposable Deprivation
Measures, Scheduled Classes and Tribes, Clean Fuel, Stunted Children. |
| Web: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11205-011-9959-6 |
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