Ranchi: The number of girls in Jharkhand has reduced continuously, according to the National Family Health Survey 5.
The survey has placed the gender ratio at 899 daughters against every 1,000 boys in the past five years.
This ratio is a little better at 919: 1000 in the NFHS-4 survey conducted in 2015-16.
Even better at 1022 girls for every 1000 boys in the NFHS-3 were carried out in 2005-06.
Apart from the decline in the ratio of girls at birth, the gender ratio of the overall population shows an increase.
NFHS-5 claims the gender ratio of population populations of 1050 women for every 1000 men better than indicators of NFHS-4 of 1002 women in Jharkhand for every 1000 men.
Previously in 2005-06 (NFHS-3), the gender ratio was 1022 women for every 1000 men.
The social policy officer at UNICEF Jharkhand, Onkar Tripathy, explained this paradox who said the death rate of boys to the age of five more than a girl.
“There may be differences in the gender ratio at birth and the gender ratio of the entire population because it has become a general observation that underground mortality (U5MR) among the children is more and then their long life is more than their male colleagues It also leads to changes in the gender ratio as a whole, “he said.
A wise gender ratio figure in the district in Jharkhand also attracted attention.
While in Charta, the gender ratio at birth is as poor as 764 girls against every 1000 boys, there are 1028 girls for every 1,000 boys in Gumla.
However, the gender ratio of the population in Chatra is much better at 1136 women per 1000 men than other districts in the state.
For the sake of comparison, the gender population ratio in Gumla is 1024 women for every 1000 men.
Raj Kumar Gope, the leader of the Ekjut Team, a non-profit organization working in the health and nutrition, said that there might be some problems with data collection.
“I have analyzed NFHS -5 data in detail and was surprised to record several paradoxes.
Surveys were carried out in two phases.
There were 22 states and UTS in the first phase survey that occurred before Covid between October17, 2019 and February 2, 2020 while the survey was conducted in the country – The remaining countries and UTS in two phases – January 20, 2020 to March 21 2020 and December 5, 2020 to April 18, 2021 – which included the post-lockdown phase, “he said.
Gope said the pre-Covid country has not shown an increase in nutritional standards such as chisel, waste, and less severe while phase II countries are surveyed after the kuncian, when the holders of the wisdom, the school is closed, the improvement of nutritional parameters can be seen.
Secretary, Women and Child Development, Jharkhand Government, Dodde, believes that the NFHS is a sample survey where the sample size is small.
“This gives us indicators and from indicators we can understand that the number of girls is reduced but so far concerned about concern, we must wait for the decadal census report to get real figures,” he said.