RecordJune 2019Maternal and child
Chandigarh: low-birth-weight share of 25.2% in June 2019 is the highest since March 2018.
What happened
- June 2019
- 25.2%
- 2018-03
- 26.2%
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 low-birth-weight share, lower is better. This movement is therefore assessed as a deterioration.
Historical context
14 consecutive earlier months were lower.
The underlying data
| Period | Value | Release | Where in the document |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | 25.2% | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, June 2019 (FY 2019-20, provisional) | 2019-2020.zip › 2019-2020/A.MonthWise/C - June.xls: ('4.4.2' Number of newborns having weight less than 2.5 kg) / ('4.4.1' Number of newborns weighed at birth) × 100; column "Chandigarh", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
| March 2018 | 26.2% | 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: ('4.4.2' Number of newborns having weight less than 2.5 kg) / ('4.4.1' Number of newborns weighed at birth) × 100; column "Chandigarh", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
Source and method
More signals for low-birth-weight share in Chandigarh
- Chandigarh's low-birth-weight share of 26.1% in May 2021 is above the India figure of 11.7% (+14.4 points).
- Chandigarh's low-birth-weight share of 25.7% in April 2021 is above the India figure of 11.5% (+14.2 points).
- Chandigarh's low-birth-weight share of 28.4% in March 2021 is above the India figure of 11.3% (+17.1 points).
- Chandigarh: low-birth-weight share of 31.0% in February 2021 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Chandigarh: low-birth-weight share in February 2021 was 31.0%, above the 3-year median of 22.3% for the same month (+8.8 points).
- Chandigarh: low-birth-weight share of 22.4% in August 2020 is the lowest since April 2019.
Cite this
According to the India Health Observatory, Chandigarh: low-birth-weight share of 25.2% in June 2019 is the highest since March 2018. Source: Health Management Information System, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, June 2019 (FY 2019-20, provisional). https://indiahealthobservatory.com/signals/low-birth-weight-share--chandigarh--2019-06--record
See also Chandigarh and 25.2% in context.