Pradhan, Manas Ranjan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-894X
Mondal, Sourav http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3869-6993
Saikia, Daisy http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8545-1035
Mudi, Prasanna Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5605-3126
Article History
Received: 27 August 2023
Accepted: 4 April 2024
First Online: 10 April 2024
Declarations
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: The study is based on secondary, deidentified publicly available survey data, and survey agencies that conducted the field survey for the data collection have also collected prior consent from the respondents. The NFHS-5 was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Institutions involved, and the datasets are available on registration at ExternalRef removed for broader use in social research. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. They ruled that no formal ethical consent was required to conduct research from this data source.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.