What’s Wrong with the Assessment of Nutritional Deprivation? A Tale of Rural India
Journal Title: International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Research (IJECR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
The aim of the paper was to quantify the proportion of undernourished households in rural India, without relying on any particular calorie cutoff point. For that mean, RDA has been estimated at the household level, after adjusting for age and gender distribution of the sedentary household members. The two NSS rounds that pertain to the years 2004-05 and 2011-12 are used here. An investigation of the determinants of calorie deprivation leads us to the finding that poor households, ST and OBC households, causal labour in agriculture, self-employed in non-agriculture and Christians have the highest probability of being calorie deprived. Among the backward states, higher incidence of nutritional deprivation persists among Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal. The legacy of higher calorie deprivation in leading states is not a cause of worry. Lower the nutritional intake, higher will be the absorption level in Southern and Western states due to their improved ways of living.
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K Antony Akhil
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