In a message dated 9/2/03 12:23:29 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Which carries more weight for you as a source of information: an >article on "Goa Today" or the Economic Survey attached to the Union >Budget, which is an official Government document? For me the choice >is obvious, which means that Goa's infant mortality rate in 2001 was >36 per thousand. >
As I had written in a post that did not appear on Goanet for some reason, there is a problem with the above figure. The official figure for the infant mortality rate has fluctuated from 4 per 1000 to 27 per 1000 over the past decade or so. The Registrar General in charge of the Sample Registration System (SRS) of the Census of India publishes a bulletin each year. According to this SRS bulletin the rate was 4 per 1000 live births in 1994. It was 23 per 1000 in 2002. In 1999-2000, it was 13.12, according to Dr. Jose de Sa of the Goa State Family Welfare Bureau. In other years, these rates have varied around 17 per 1000. It may well be 11 per 1000 in 2003. Cheers, Santosh ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
