. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 9.

Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2019 Feb 26;40:417–430. doi: 10.4054/demres.2019.40.16

Table 1:

Place of birth and NNM in Indian states, 2005–2006 and 2015–2016

	Fraction		Fraction		NNM^b		Fraction of India’s total^c
	Home birth^a		Facility birth^a				Births		Neonatal deaths
Region and state	05–06	15–16	05–06	15–16	05–06	15–16	05–06	15–16	05–06	15–16

Focus states	0.80	0.34	0.20	0.66	45	42	0.32	0.30	0.37	0.43
Uttar Pradesh	0.79	0.32	0.21	0.68	48	45	0.21	0.18	0.25	0.27
Bihar	0.80	0.36	0.20	0.64	40	37	0.11	0.13	0.11	0.16
Central	0.77	0.20	0.23	0.80	46	38	0.09	0.10	0.11	0.12
Madhya Pradesh	0.74	0.19	0.26	0.81	45	37	0.07	0.07	0.08	0.08
Chhattisgarh	0.86	0.30	0.14	0.70	51	42	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03
East	0.67	0.26	0.33	0.74	43	27	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.14
West Bengal	0.58	0.24	0.42	0.76	38	22	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.05
Jharkhand	0.82	0.38	0.18	0.62	49	33	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03
Assam	0.77	0.29	0.23	0.71	46	33	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03
Odisha	0.64	0.14	0.36	0.86	45	28	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03
West	0.40	0.10	0.60	0.90	32	20	0.13	0.12	0.10	0.08
Maharashtra	0.35	0.10	0.65	0.90	32	16	0.08	0.09	0.06	0.05
Gujarat	0.47	0.11	0.53	0.89	34	27	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.04
South	0.26	0.05	0.74	0.95	29	17	0.16	0.18	0.12	0.10
Andhra Pradesh and Telegana	0.35	0.08	0.65	0.92	40	22	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.05
Tamil Nadu	0.12	0.01	0.88	0.99	19	14	0.04	0.06	0.02	0.03
Karnataka	0.35	0.06	0.65	0.94	29	19	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.03
Kerala	0.01	0.00	0.99	1.00	12	4	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.00
North	0.65	0.16	0.35	0.84	37	27	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10
Harayana	0.64	0.20	0.36	0.80	24	22	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02
Punjab	0.49	0.10	0.51	0.90	28	21	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01
Rajasthan	0.70	0.16	0.30	0.84	44	30	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.06

Note: Summary statistics are shown for Indian states that had populations larger than 25 million in the 2011 Census of India. In each survey year, these states accounted for 97% of NNM in India. Estimates use survey weights provided by the NFHS.

A ‘home birth’ is a birth that occurred at home; a ‘facility birth’ is a birth that occurred in a health facility. The NFHS collected data on place of birth for each mother’s last three births in the five years before the survey.

NNM is neonatal mortality, the number of deaths per 1,000 live births that took place in the first month of life. NNM is computed by using the same method that is used by the DHS (see Rutstein and Rojas 2006) and uses births in the five years before the survey.

Figures for the percentage of total births and neonatal deaths do not add to one because they use all of India in the denominator, not states with populations greater than 25 million. These figures are computed using births in the five years before the survey.