RecordApril 2019Maternal and child
Telangana: C-section share of institutional deliveries of 47.4% in April 2019 is the lowest since March 2018.
What happened
- April 2019
- 47.4%
- 2018-03
- 47.3%
Why it matters
A record says how long it has been since the series was this high or this low. It puts a single value in the context of the whole published history.
For C-section share of institutional deliveries, 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
12 consecutive earlier months were higher.
Full history of C-section share of institutional deliveries in Telangana
The underlying data
| Period | Value | Release | Where in the document |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | 47.4% | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2019 (FY 2019-20, provisional) | 2019-2020.zip › 2019-2020/A.MonthWise/A - April.xls: ('3.1' Total C -Section deliveries performed) / ('2.2' Number of Institutional Deliveries conducted (Including C-Sections)) × 100; column "Telangana", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
| March 2018 | 47.3% | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, March 2018 (FY 2017-18, provisional) | 2017-2018.zip › 2017-2018/A.MonthWise/L - March.xls: ('3.1' Total C -Section deliveries performed) / ('2.2' Number of Institutional Deliveries conducted (Including C-Sections)) × 100; column "Telangana", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
Source and method
More signals for C-section share of institutional deliveries in Telangana
- Telangana: C-section share of institutional deliveries of 53.5% in May 2021 is the lowest since February 2020.
- Telangana's C-section share of institutional deliveries of 56.7% in March 2021 is above the India figure of 22.6% (+34.1 points).
- Telangana: C-section share of institutional deliveries of 57.1% in October 2020 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Telangana: C-section share of institutional deliveries of 56.7% in August 2020 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Telangana: C-section share of institutional deliveries of 54.8% in July 2020 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Telangana: C-section share of institutional deliveries of 54.1% in June 2020 is the highest since March 2019.
Cite this
According to the India Health Observatory, Telangana: C-section share of institutional deliveries of 47.4% in April 2019 is the lowest since March 2018. Source: Health Management Information System, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2019 (FY 2019-20, provisional). https://indiahealthobservatory.com/signals/c-section-rate-institutional--telangana--2019-04--record
See also Telangana and 47.4% in context.