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National data on birthweight from birth certificates or medical records are not available in India.
The registers include data on birthweight, gestational age, place of birth, and Apgar score.
The third Indian National Family Health Survey included data on birthweight of children obtained from health cards and maternal recall.
Information on baby size can potentially be used in conjunction with data on birthweight to provide a more comprehensive picture.
Our results suggest that in the absence of other sources, the data on birthweight in the third Indian National Family Health Survey is valuable for epidemiologic research.
Those missing data on birthweight were mostly children from the lower two quintiles of household wealth (60.5%), living in villages (84.59%), whose mothers did not go to school (64.78%).
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We posit that ignoring the data on actual birthweight in the NFHS is to ignore valuable data.
The motivation behind this study is to collect data on low birthweight in NWFP, starting from the four public hospitals available for the general public in Peshawar.
> -wrap-foot> There were 1259 babies with information on birthweight.
Secondary analyses exploring the effect of missing data (described below) included all births with adult parents for which data are available on birthweight (N = 347086).
Low Birthweight: Data on the expected incidence of low birthweight came from previous studies we have conducted in this area [ 30 ].
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