Change on a year earlierApril 2020Maternal and child
Bihar: institutional delivery share rose to 96.6% in April 2020, against 81.0% a year earlier (+15.7 points).
What happened
- April 2020
- 96.6%
- April 2019
- 81.0%
- Change
- +15.7%
- Change, percentage points
- +15.7 pts
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 institutional delivery share, higher is better. This movement is therefore assessed as an improvement.
Historical context
Compared with the same month of 2019, 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 2020 | 96.6% | 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: ('2.2' Number of Institutional Deliveries conducted (Including C-Sections)) / ('2.1.1.a' Number of Home Deliveries attended by Skill Birth Attendant(SBA) (Doctor/Nurse/ANM/ Midwife) + '2.1.1.b' Number of Home Deliveries attended by Non SBA (Trained Birth Attendant(TBA) /Relatives/etc.) + '2.2' Number of Institutional Deliveries conducted (Including C-Sections)) × 100; column "Bihar", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
| April 2019 | 81.0% | 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: ('2.2' Number of Institutional Deliveries conducted (Including C-Sections)) / ('2.1.1.a' Number of Home Deliveries attended by Skill Birth Attendant(SBA) (Doctor/Nurse/ANM) + '2.1.1.b' Number of Home Deliveries attended by Non SBA (Trained Birth Attendant(TBA) /Relatives/etc.) + '2.2' Number of Institutional Deliveries conducted (Including C-Sections)) × 100; column "Bihar", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
Source and method
More signals for institutional delivery share in Bihar
- Bihar's institutional delivery share of 82.4% in May 2021 is below the India figure of 94.3% (−11.9 points).
- Bihar's institutional delivery share of 85.4% in April 2021 is below the India figure of 95.1% (−9.7 points).
- Bihar: institutional delivery share of 96.6% in April 2020 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Bihar: institutional delivery share in April 2020 was 96.6%, above the 3-year median of 76.9% for the same month (+19.7 points).
- Bihar: institutional delivery share of 87.2% in September 2019 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Bihar: institutional delivery share of 86.0% in August 2019 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
Cite this
According to the India Health Observatory, Bihar: institutional delivery share rose to 96.6% in April 2020, against 81.0% a year earlier (+15.7 points). Source: Health Management Information System, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2020 (FY 2020-21, provisional). https://indiahealthobservatory.com/signals/institutional-delivery-share--bihar--2020-04--yoy_change
See also Bihar and 96.6% in context.