Looking at the doc page numbered 438, 439 it looks that they have separate % for women and men, i wonder how they combined it. And the total seems to be 45.1% for women, and 57.3% for men in total. Wonder how they arrived at 77%
The source in the image says the survey was from 15 to 49 years old; I’m not sure on the age demographics of India but that seems like it would leave out a large chunk of population.
fair, but people below the age of 15 are so heavily influenced by their families that to sample them is to essentially sample the parents twice. Given that, according to the source cited in the image, "NFHS-5 was designed to provide information on sexual behaviour;" sampling people below 15 or above 49 could lead to skewed results due to a tendency toward non-participation.
What's really interesting about the survey is that it classifies fish as not being meat. It differentiates between houses that eat fish, houses that eat chicken or meat (guessing "meat" is beef, lamb, goat and pork in this context though of course that's not exhaustive) or houses that eat all three.
I have met a few Gujratis online—they say that a large portion of the new generation occasionally tries non-veg, but they never admit it to others out of peer pressure.
This may well be true, but if you check the survey it's not "have you ever eaten meat", it's "do you eat meat at least once per week". It seems the idea is to track trends and habits.
I've been to India ,twice and I can tell one thing that on one side you'll see people rich af like bill gates , elon musk and on the other side you'll see people who can't even afford a meal.