RecordDecember 2020Maternal and child
Haryana: low-birth-weight share of 9.8% in December 2020 is the lowest since January 2018.
What happened
- December 2020
- 9.8%
- 2018-01
- 8.6%
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 an improvement.
Historical context
34 consecutive earlier months were higher.
The underlying data
| Period | Value | Release | Where in the document |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2020 | 9.8% | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, December 2020 (FY 2020-21, provisional) | 2020-2021(Data is Provisional)/A.MonthWise/I-Dec.xlsx: ('4.4.2' Number of newborns having weight less than 2.5 kg) / ('4.4.1' Number of newborns weighed at birth) × 100; column "Haryana", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
| January 2018 | 8.6% | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, January 2018 (FY 2017-18, provisional) | 2017-2018.zip › 2017-2018/A.MonthWise/J - January.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 "Haryana", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
Source and method
More signals for low-birth-weight share in Haryana
- Haryana: low-birth-weight share in March 2021 was 10.3%, below the 3-year median of 13.9% for the same month (−3.6 points).
- Haryana: low-birth-weight share of 10.7% in August 2020 is the lowest since January 2018.
- Haryana: low-birth-weight share of 19.6% in April 2020 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
- Haryana: low-birth-weight share of 10.7% in April 2019 is the lowest since January 2018.
- Haryana: low-birth-weight share rose to 14.8% in December 2018, against 7.2% a year earlier (+7.7 points).
- Haryana: low-birth-weight share of 17.6% in October 2018 is the highest in the series, which begins April 2017.
Cite this
According to the India Health Observatory, Haryana: low-birth-weight share of 9.8% in December 2020 is the lowest since January 2018. Source: Health Management Information System, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, December 2020 (FY 2020-21, provisional). https://indiahealthobservatory.com/signals/low-birth-weight-share--haryana--2020-12--record
See also Haryana and 9.8% in context.