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Data for 593 districts are available as per the Census 2001.
The present computation is, however, done for only 569 districts.
This is because data for 14 districts in Jammu & Kashmir and
one district in Manipur are not available, RCH was not held in
one district of Assam. The 9 districts of NCT of Delhi was treated
as one district.
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The RCH survey was conducted in 504 districts only. For the
new districts created, the indicators are assumed to be same
as in their respective parent districts from which the major
portion was carved out.
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As the district-wise census reports of five States (Manipur, Tripura,
Meghalaya, Pondicherry and Lakshwadeep) are not available,
2001 district-wise data for these States were estimated assuming
a linear growth and using a jacking factor for each indicator
worked out on the basis of the performance of the state between
1991 and 2001 in respect of each indicator.
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The data on registration of births and deaths were not available for
some district. For such districts, the lowest registration
figure in the respective State was adopted in consultation
with the ICMR and Dy. RGI, Civil Registration System
- The state/districts are ranked in descending order of the
composite index.
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Composite index for the districts in Assam has been worked out based
on 10 indicators, since the registration data on birth and
death for the state was not available.
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In computation of composite state
index, weightage according to population size is given to
each parameter.
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The data on the births and deaths
registered were available in absolute number at district
level. Equivalent conversion into percentages was done in
consultation with ICMR, New Delhi and IIPS, Bombay.
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State level data on the safe drinking water and connectivity to Pucca
roads were obtained from Planning Commission for year 2000.
To get the district level estimates for 2000 the jacking
factor for each state was used based on the increase for
the state between 1991 and 2000.
Regarding safe drinking water, the data
provided by Planning Commission had three categories viz. NC=Not
Covered, PC=Partially Covered, and FC=Fully Covered. In calculating
the percentage of habitations having safe drinking water Coverage
only those habitations, which were Fully covered, were taken into
account. Therefore the index of this item may not give a true
picture of the availability of safe drinking water
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