Morung Express News
Dimapur | January 15
A 45-day state level training of investigators on Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), Main Wave-I, Phase-II States, got underway here at Development Association of Nagaland Foundation, 4th Mile.
LASI is a nation-wide survey to understand the health, economic, social and overall wellbeing of people aged 45 years and above in India. The survey is undertaken by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in collaboration with Harvard School of Public Health and University of Southern California, USA, under the aegis of Ministry of Health& Family Welfare, Government of India.
Resource persons and trainers of the 45-day intensive training are from the Helping Organization against Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development (HOPARD), the only agency in the North East Region engaged in research services on a large scale.
The resource persons include HOPARD’s director, Dr. Latashori K, project manager/research Nagaland, Surenthung Enny, Balaj Chakrawar, Dr. Mithelesh and Somorjit.
LASI is a nationally representative survey of around 61,000 older adults of 30 States and 6 Union Territories of both urban and rural areas and is scheduled to be conducted in every two years initially for the 5 years (2 waves) and is expected to continue for the next 25 years. This longitudinal study will help to formulate policies and programmes for the adults and older people of India.
Two types of schedules – household and individual – are being administered to all the selected households through computer assisted personal interview (CAPI). Head of the household or any other member of the household will be interviewed to collect information on housing condition, household members, income, assets etc. Individual schedule is administered to the selected eligible individuals aged 45 and above and their spouses to cover various aspects of their families and social networks, health, work and employment, retirement and pension, and their expectations.
A community schedule is administered to key informants of the community to gather information village/ward/CEB level about infrastructures, welfare policies and programmes.
State project manager, Surenthung Enny, informed that after the training, the investigators would conduct surveys and collect data from 40 villages spread out in six districts of Nagaland – Dimapur, Kohima, Mokokchung, Wokha, Kiphire and Mon.
Project officer, IIPS, Zabenthung Enny, also supervised the training.
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