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By grouping adolescents with adults, India’s surveys are routinely misestimating their health One major attempt to correct this has been a one-off. Representational image. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data sources do not gather sufficient data specifically on adolescents, clubbing them instead with data on adults. This holds true across states, rural-urban residence and wealth groups, a June 2020 study says, showing up data gaps with wide-ranging implications for policy and programme design. The key National Family Health Survey does not collect health and nutrition data for school-age children (6-year to 9-year-old) and

National capital territory of delhiWest bengalUttar pradeshTamil naduManoj jhalaniAnurag bhargavaAnjani kumar singhRashtriya kishor swasthya karyakramYogendra ghorpadeMadhavi bhargavaMinistry of healthUnited nations international children emergency fundNational adolescent health programmeCoverage evaluationNational nutrition monitoring bureauTata institute of social sciences