Howrah Indicators

Howrah
Population data, 2001 census
Total
Population 2001 Census (in thousand) 4274
Percentage of urban population 50.4
Decadal population growth rate (1991-2001) 14.60
Sample population
Number of households interviewed 1014
Number of eligible women interviewed 814
Number of husbands interviewed 506
Characteristics of households interviewed
Hindu 79.5
Muslim 20.0
Other 0.1
Schedule caste 16.6
Schedule tribe 3.8
Other backward class (OBC) 6.4
Low standard of living index (SLI) 36.1
High standard of living index (SLI) 18.0
Characteristics of women
Below age 30 46.9
Age at first cohabitation below age 18 51.4
Non-literate 27.4
Having 10+ years of schooling 15.4
With Non-literate husband 21.2
With husband having 10+ years of schooling 26.6
Marriages
Mean age at marriage for boys 26.9
Mean age at marriage for girls 18.7
Boys married at age below 21 11.6
Girls married at age below 18 25.5
Fertility
Mean children ever born to women age 40-44 3.59
Crude birth rate (CBR) 19.75
Total fertility rate (TFR) 2.02
Birth order 3 and above 26.6
Mortality
Crude death rate (CDR) 4.45
Infant mortality rate (IMR) 37.97
Morbidity
Prevalence of complete blindness 111
Prevalence of partial blindness 2903
Prevalence of tuberculosis 151
Prevalence of malaria 141
Knowledge of Family Planning methods (women)
Any modern method 100.0
Any modern spacing method 99.4
All modern methods 74.7
Husbands knowing NSV 30.1
Current use of family planning methods
Any method 77.6
Any modern method 55.2
Female sterilization 30.9
Male sterilization 0.4
IUD 1.3
Pills 16.9
Condom 4.5
Any traditional method 22.4
Unmet Need for family planning (women)
Unmet need for Limiting 5.1
Unmet need for Spacing 1.3
Total 6.4
Maternal Health Care
Antenatal check-up
No Antenatal check-up 8.6
Any Antenatal check-up 91.4
Three or more Antenatal check-up 77.9
Antenatal at home 1.1
Titanus Toxiod injection during pregnancy
Who had none 6.4
Who had one TT injection 6.6
Who had two or more TT injection 86.7

Iron Folic Acid (IFA) tablets
during pregnancy
Consumed 2 or more IFA tablets 18.2
Received 100 or more IFA tablets 19.4
Received full Antenatal check-up (ANC) 16.9
Institutional delivery 56.7
In Government health facility 42.4
In private health facility 14.3
Home delivery 40.5
Attended by Doctor/ANM/Nurse/TBA 47.4
Safe delivery 75.9
Child Care
women who started breastfeeding within 21.4
2 hours of the birth to their child
Women who gave exclusive breast milk for 27.1
at least 4 months to their child
Percentage of children who received
BCG 85.7
DPT (Three injections) 73.5
Polio (Three doses) 70.7
Measles 65.1
Full immunizations 57.4
Awareness of diarrhoea and pneumonia
among women
Aware of diarrhea 89.5
Had diarrhea 6.1
Given ORS to children with diarrhea 43.2
Aware of danger signs of pneumonia 30.8
Sought treatment of children with pneumonia 76.4
Awareness of RTI/STI and HIV/AIDS
Eligible women aware of RTI/STI 79.1
Husbands aware of RTI/STI 88.9
Eligible women aware of HIV/AIDS 71.9
Husbands aware of HIV/AIDS 87.3
Reproductive Morbidity
Women had their last Pregnancy
Pregnancy complication 32.2
Delivery complication 37.3
Post-delivery complication 32.7
Women having contraceptive side effects
Female sterilization 19.4
IUD 72.5
Pills 16.7

Menstruation related problem 20.7
Any symptom of RTI/STI 26.7
Abnormal vaginal discharge 9.3
Husband having any symptom of RTI/STI 3.8
Home Visit by Health Worker
Women visited by ANM/health worker 101.6
Women who had said worker spent 61.4
enough time with them
Utilization of Government Health Services
Women who utilized government
health facility for
Antenatal care 44.3
Treatment of complications during pregnancy 14.4
Treatment of post-delivery complications 13.3
Treatment for RTI/STI (vaginal di scharge) 22.1 (2.9)
Treatment of complications due to 33.5
Female sterilization
Treatment of complications due to IUD 10.3
Treatment of complications due to Pills 7.4