South India Community Health Study 2016
India, 2016
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IND_2016_SICHS_v01_M
South India Community Health Study 2016
SICHS 2016
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Administrative Records, Health (ad/hea]
Collected data from the South India Community Health Study (SICHS), which covers a rural population of 1.1 million individuals residing in Vellore district in Tamil Nadu. The study includes a census of all 298,000 households drawn from 57 castes and a detailed survey of 5,000 representative households. The census, completed in 2014, provides a comprehensive demographic and socioeconomic profile of the study area. The household survey, conducted in 2016, collected information on marriage patterns, including within-caste marriage, close-kin marriage, arranged marriage, and migration of spouses between villages.
The SICHS was designed to examine a variety of socioeconomic phenomena and health problems, including the treatment of tuberculosis. The study area thus comprises three Tuberculosis Units (TU’s) within Vellore district that were purposefully selected to be representative of rural South India.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households
Version
Version 01: Edited, anonymized dataset for public distribution
2015-11-30
Paper that uses this data: Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection
Reproducibility package https://doi.org/10.60572/v977-sw59
Scope
SICHS provides a rich dataset on demographics, socioeconomic status, marriage patterns in rural Tamil Nadu. It enables detailed caste-based and economic analyses on social behaviors and long-term wealth indicators
Coverage
Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, India.
Rural population of 1.1 million individuals in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu.
Sampling
South India Community Health Study (SICHS) has two components:
A census of all 298,000 households drawn from 57 castes residing on the study area, completed in 2014.
A detailed survey of 5,000 representative households, completed in 2016.
The sampling frame for the household survey included all ever-married men aged 25-60 in the SICHS census plus (a small number of) divorced or widowed women with “missing” husbands who would have been aged 25-60, based on the average age-gap between husbands and wives. The sample was subsequently drawn to be representative of each caste in the study area, excluding castes with less than 100 households in the census.
Survey instrument
- Female primary respondent (FPR) questionnaire.
- Male primary respondent (MPR) questionnaire.
- Household roster questionnaire.
- Spouse (SPO) os MPR questionnaire.
- NIRT census questionnaire.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 2016 |
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Girija Borker | World Bank | gborker@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_IND_2016_SICHS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | DECDG | World Bank | Documentation of the survey |
2025-04-10
Metadata version
Version 01 (April 2025)