Aashish Gupta

University of Oxford
Aashish Gupta

Aashish Gupta is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Deparment of Sociology and Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. He was previously a David E. Bell Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (2022-23). He has a PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Aashish is a demographer with interests in health, environment, and social inequality in developing countries.

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क्या ग्रामीण उत्तर भारत में अभी भी खुले में शौच प्रचलित है?

स्वच्छ भारत मिशन के बाद चार फोकस वाले राज्यों में प्रचलित खुले में शौच को समझने की कोशिश में, व्यास और गुप्ता एनएफएचएस-5 के निष्कर्षों का मूल्यांकन करते हैं। वे पाते हैं कि पारिवारिक स्तर पर एकत्र किए गए डेटा के उपयोग और प्रतिक्रिया पूर्वाग्रह की संभावना के चलते खुले में शौच की दर को एनएफएचएस द्वारा कम आंके जाने की संभावना है। अनुमानों को समायोजित करने के पश्चात वे पाते हैं कि वर्ष 2019-21 के दौरान फोकस वाले राज्यों में लगभग आधे ग्रामीण भारतियों ने खुले में शौच किया।

23 February 2023
Human Development
Human Development

Is open defecation still prevalent in rural north India?

In an attempt to understand open defecation in four focus states in the aftermath of the Swachh Bharat Mission, Vyas and Gupta evaluate the findings of the NFHS-5. They note that the NFHS is likely to underestimate open defection rates due to their use of data collected at the household level, and the possibility of response bias. After adjusting the estimates, they find that about half of rural Indians in the focus states defecated in the open in 2019-21.

20 January 2023
Human Development
Human Development
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