2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Understanding the Puzzle Behind Lower Vaccination Use: A Case Study of India
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21K13307
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| Research Institution | Asian Growth Research Institute |
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Principal Investigator |
SUR PRAMOD・KUMAR 公益財団法人アジア成長研究所, 研究部, 上級研究員 (30845037)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Vaccination / Forced Sterilization / Economic History / Antenatal Care / Child Mortality / Institutional Delivery / Persistence / India |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The primary objective of this project is to understand and examine the puzzle behind lower vaccination use considering India as a case study that (1) contributes to the largest pools of under-vaccinated children in the world, (2) accounts for one-third of the annual vaccine-preventable child deaths globally, and (3) among one of the lowest vaccination rates in the world.
I have published two working papers on this project. In addition, I have also presented my findings at six international and seven domestic conferences. In the following, I list the working papers I wrote for this project.
(1) Sur, P.K., 2021. Why is the Vaccination Rate Low in India? Asian Growth Research Institute Working Paper No. 2021-3
(2) Sur, P.K., 2021. Understanding the Puzzle of Primary Health-care Use: Evidence from India. Asian Growth Research Institute Working Paper No. 2021-4
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I have collected the historical and contemporary datasets from India to implement the project. I have analyzed them and presented my findings at seven domestic and six international conferences. Additionally, I have written two papers on this project. I have published them as working papers. I am currently working hard on collecting additional historical datasets for this research. Furthermore, I am revising the working papers for publication in international peer-review journals.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I plan to visit the Indian Archives to get additional historical data for this project. In addition, I also plan to revise the current working papers and publish them in international peer-review journals. In the future, I will extend this project to other fields.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The current research aims to combine historical data from national archives and household data from national representative surveys. I could not be able to visit the National Archive in India to collect the historical dataset last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, I wrote the papers using the existing dataset that I collected before. In the next fiscal year, I aim to visit the Indian National Archive to collect the historical data for this project. Therefore, I need the necessary funds next fiscal year.
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