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Rajasthan NFHS-4 Data: Improvement in sanitation is associated with Female Literacy

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is part of Digital India initiative intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It aims to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective. The National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health and nutrition for India and each State / Union territory. NFHS-4, for the first time, provides district-level estimates for many important indicators. Some pieces of this data is also available on OGD platform in public domain. I have used NFHS-4 district-level data of Rajasthan from OGD Platform to find out the performance of vario