Duration of migration in different class cities of India and the health of children

The study endeviours to analyze the health condition of children in the context of rapid urbanization and migration in India. The study also examines the basic amenities available to the migrants in the different class cities. This paper uses all three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data, which was conducted in the years 1992-93, 1997-98 and 2005-06 respectively. For the analysis we have categorized cities into three classes on the basis of population namely, large city (more than 1 million population), small city (100,000 to 1 million population) and town (less than 100,000 population). The prevalence of diarrhea and ARI is highest in large cities. Urban to urban migration in the large cities have increased from NFHS II to NFHS III. The children in the recent migrant households (1 to 5 years) are more affected by both diarrhea and ARI followed by 6 to 10 years and 11 to 20 years old migrant households. Children from migrant households of rural are more affected by both diarrhea and ARI than otherwise. The multivariate results reconfirm the bivariate findings in most of the cases.