Subject(s): Housing and Environment -- Demographic characteristics -- Mortality -- Mortality research in India, methodology- study on nutritional and health status, data analysis -- Infant and childhood mortality : Perception of mortality, age at infant death, live birth and mortality, birth order and mortality, mortality and fertility -- Socio-economic characteristics : Socio economic correlates of mortality -- Housing and environment -- Demographic characteristics : Demographic and environmental correlates of mortality, health variables -- Socialization and breast feeding : Prelacteal feeds, breast feeding, initiation of supplementary foods, care and affection -- Morbidity patterns : Causes of death, recent morbidity patterns, delivery attendants -- Food choice and nutritional status : Pattern of food choice, food choice and infant/ childhood mortality, distribution of families as per pattern of food choices, general nutritional status of mothers- clinical observation, anthropometric measurements and haemoglobin estimation, height and weight indices of mothers, haemoglobin per cent of mothers -- Case studies : Religion , culture and mortality, mortality in harijan family, caste , status and mortality -- Incidence of infant and childhood mortality, socio cultural variables, demographic factors, socialization and breast feeding, nutritional status