−0.1 ptsDeteriorating
2023–24Change on previous periodWest Bengal
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Maternal and childMulti-yearNational Family Health Survey
Percentage of children aged 12–23 months who received BCG, a measles-containing vaccine, and three doses each of polio (excluding the birth dose) and DPT or pentavalent vaccine, by vaccination card or mother's recall.
−0.1% (−0.1%) from 88.2% in 2019–21. A move in the worse direction.
Provisional figure
| Period | West Bengal | India | Status | Where in the document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023–24 | 88.1% | 82.6% | Provisional | NFHS-6 State/UT fact sheets, PDF p.136, "West Bengal - Key Indicators", indicator 44 "Children age 12-23 months fully vaccinated based on information from either vaccination card or mother's recall (%)", column NFHS-6 (2023-24) Total |
| 2019–21 | 88.2% | 76.6% | Reported | NFHS-6 State/UT fact sheets, PDF p.136, "West Bengal - Key Indicators", indicator 44 "Children age 12-23 months fully vaccinated based on information from either vaccination card or mother's recall (%)", column NFHS-5 (2019-21) Total; the publisher's restatement of NFHS-5 printed on the NFHS-6 sheet |
Percentage of children aged 12–23 months who received BCG, a measles-containing vaccine, and three doses each of polio (excluding the birth dose) and DPT or pentavalent vaccine, by vaccination card or mother's recall.
The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is a household sample survey run by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. NFHS-6 interviewed 679,238 households, 716,397 women and 100,977 men in two fieldwork phases (28 May 2023 – 26 Feb 2024 and 7 Feb 2024 – 31 Dec 2024), using a two-stage sample designed for national, State/UT and district estimates, with height, weight, blood pressure and random blood glucose measured by trained health investigators. Every value is a weighted survey estimate, a percentage of the stated population group, not a count of services. NFHS-6 indicator 44, 'Children age 12-23 months fully vaccinated based on information from either vaccination card or mother's recall (%)', with the footnote 'Vaccinated with BCG, measles-containing vaccine (MCV)/MR/MMR/Measles, and 3 doses each of polio (excluding polio vaccine given at birth) and DPT or penta vaccine.' The card-only figure (indicator 45) is not stored. Source: NFHS-6 fact sheet compendium, '<Place> - Key Indicators', indicator 44: the 'NFHS-6 (2023-24) Total' column for the 2023-2024 value and the 'NFHS-5 (2019-21) Total' column for the 2019-2021 value. The NFHS-5 figure is the publisher's own restatement printed on the NFHS-6 sheet (the original NFHS-5 State fact sheets are now behind a login on nfhsiips.in), and is cited as such. IHO stores totals only; the urban and rural NFHS-6 columns are not stored. Periods are stored as the national fieldwork windows: 2023-2024 (1 May 2023 – 31 Dec 2024) and 2019-2021 (17 Jun 2019 – 30 Apr 2021). Each State/UT was surveyed over a shorter stretch inside the NFHS-6 window (Appendix 2 of the compendium gives the dates; Kerala, for example, 4 Jul – 23 Dec 2023).
Mother's recall is less reliable than a card, especially for the number of polio and DPT doses. A survey estimate carries sampling error: IIPS publishes relative standard errors for India only (Appendix 1), so small differences between States, or between rounds for a small State or UT, may not be real. The NFHS-6 fact sheets are provisional ('The results presented in the NFHS-6 Fact Sheets are provisional'); IIPS's final reports may revise them, and IHO records any change as a revision. Values the fact sheet prints in brackets rest on 25–49 unweighted cases and are stored as low-sample (shown with a warning, never scored); values it suppresses with '*' (fewer than 25 cases) are not stored. Manipur was not surveyed in NFHS-6, so it has no 2023-2024 value, and IHO does not carry its NFHS-5 value forward.
No value in this series has been revised since the observatory first archived it.
India Health Observatory (2026). Fully vaccinated children aged 12–23 months, West Bengal, 2019–21 to 2023–24 [dataset]. Original data: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Family Health Survey. https://indiahealthobservatory.com/india/west-bengal/full-immunisation-coverage
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2 periods. Values exactly as published; nothing interpolated.
The NFHS-6 footnote spells out measles-containing vaccine as 'MCV/MR/MMR/Measles'; IHO reads this as a clarification of NFHS-5's 'measles-containing vaccine', not a change of definition, but has not been able to check the NFHS-5 original (login-gated). Not the same measure as HMIS 'fully immunised children', which counts doses reported by facilities against an estimated target. NFHS-6 prints its NFHS-5 value against the same indicator wording and footnotes, and the wording of this indicator did not change between the rounds. One design change affects every indicator: NFHS-6 selected urban first-stage units from the Urban Frame Survey blocks (2012-17) instead of Census enumeration blocks. Geography is the post-2020 map in both rounds (Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh separate; Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu merged). Not comparable with HMIS figures for similarly named services, which count facility reports rather than surveying households.
How signals are computed from this series: methodology.