Two one-hour interviews in each household covered topics concerning health, education, employment, economic status, marriage, fertility, gender relations, and social capital.
Children aged 8-11 completed short reading, writing, and arithmetic tests.
This makes the IHDS unique in India as a large-scale survey where results from two time periods can be directly compared.
Results from this survey are summarized in a book titled Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transition, published in 2010 by the Oxford University Press.
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