Witten in an easy-to-understand form, this book covers research methods, maternal and infant survival, nutritional status, nutritional deficiency disorders, gender disparity and adolescent reproductive sexual health. The book also describes statistical methods that are promising but have hardly been used in India. Also included are measurements of hunger and food security, hunger mapping, diseases in community clusters, randomized response technique for sensitive characteristics and small area estimation for inadequate sample size. Each of these techniques is explained through live data examples.