A Profile of Youth in India (English)

Document Type

Other Documents

Publication Topic(s)

Youth

Country(s)

India

Language

English

Author(s)

Sulabha Parasuraman, Sunita Kishor, Shri Kant Singh and Y. Vaidehi

Publication Date

August 2009

Publication ID

OD59

Abstract:

This report uses data from the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) to provide a profile of youth in India—who they are, what they know, what they think, how they behave, and what their health and nutritional status is—that is relevant for population, health, and nutrition programmes and for policy makers. Youth are defined as women and men age 15-24. All analyses in this report provide information separately for women and men, and most also do so by age (15-19 and 20-24) and marital status, in order to better highlight the different needs of these groups.