Understanding the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults (UDAYA) - 2019

India
South Asia

Understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults (UDAYA) is a longitudinal study of adolescent boys and girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. UDAYA survey data sets contain information on adolescents aged 10–19 at wave 1 and aged 13–22 at wave 2 and the households to which they belonged. Five categories of adolescents were included in the sample: cohort of unmarried adolescent girls and boys aged 10–14 at wave 1 and aged 13–17 at wave 2; 15–19 at wave 1 and aged 18–22 at wave 2; and cohort of married girls aged 15–19 at wave 1 and 18–22 at wave 2 aged 10-19. Dataset contains completed interviews of 16,292 adolescents and young adults.

Study Website

Adolescents: 16,292

Sex:

Females and Males

Age Range:

10-14
15-19
20-24

Study Design:

Experimental

Type of Data:

Longitudinal

Time Period: 2018-2019

Areas Covered: States: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh

Investigators: KG Santhya (Population Council)

Funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Series:

Understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults (UDAYA)

Topics

Demographic Characteristics;

Economics - Employment;

Education;

Family/Household Structure;

Physical Health - Anthropometry, Nutrition;