Change on a year earlierApril 2021Maternal and child
Bihar: ANC registrations rose to 2,42,888 in April 2021, against 37,267 a year earlier (+552%).
What happened
- April 2021
- 2,42,888
- April 2020
- 37,267
- Change
- +2,05,621
- Change, per cent
- +552%
Why it matters
Comparing a week or month with the same week or month a year earlier removes ordinary seasonality: monsoon-season fever, the March reporting rush. What remains is change the calendar does not explain.
For ANC registrations, neither a rise nor a fall is better in itself, so the observatory marks this movement as unusual rather than good or bad.
Historical context
Compared with the same month of 2020, which removes ordinary seasonality. This comparison involves the COVID-19 disruption period (March 2020 – June 2021), when service use and reporting fell sharply.
The underlying data
| Period | Value | Release | Where in the document |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | 2,42,888 | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2021 (FY 2021-22, provisional) | 2021-2022(Data is Provisional)/A.MonthWise/A-Apr.xlsx: '1.1' Total number of pregnant women registered for ANC; column "Bihar", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
| April 2020 | 37,267 | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2020 (FY 2020-21, provisional) | 2020-2021(Data is Provisional)/A.MonthWise/A-Apr.xlsx: '1.1' Total number of pregnant women registered for ANC; column "Bihar", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
Source and method
More signals for ANC registrations in Bihar
- Bihar: 3,43,184 ANC registrations in May 2020, the most in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Bihar: ANC registrations fell to 37,267 in April 2020, against 3,08,215 a year earlier (−88%).
- Bihar: ANC registrations in April 2020 was 37,267, below the 3-year median of 2,88,419 for the same month (−87%).
- Bihar: ANC registrations rose to 2,67,367 in December 2019, against 1,55,165 a year earlier (+72%).
- Bihar: 3,15,874 ANC registrations in August 2019, the most since July 2018.
- Bihar: ANC registrations fell to 1,55,165 in December 2018, against 2,31,857 a year earlier (−33%).
Cite this
According to the India Health Observatory, Bihar: ANC registrations rose to 2,42,888 in April 2021, against 37,267 a year earlier (+552%). Source: Health Management Information System, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2021 (FY 2021-22, provisional). https://indiahealthobservatory.com/signals/anc-registrations--bihar--2021-04--yoy_change
See also Bihar and 2,42,888 in context.