IHDS-3 Field Training and Data Collection

Data collection for the third round of the much-awaited India Human Development Survey (IHDS-3),  has started  from the second week of May 2022 and is in full swing. The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) is a nationally representative, multi-topic panel survey. The NDIC team conducted an extensive training programme for interviewers and field staff. The three-week long training covered IHDS overview, discussion of household and community questionnaires, demonstration of data model in Blaise, survey and sample management in SurveyTrak, mock practice and field practice of interviews. Data collection has been completed from households, communities (villages/urban blocks), health facilities and schools in the States of Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Tripura, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir. The primary survey is ongoing in Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Assam and the six other North-eastern States.