Background attributes | Percentage distribution of across subgroups for background variables | |||
TB cases | Overall sample | |||
% | N | % | N | |
Wealth Index Groups | ||||
Poorest quantile | 34.1 | 2973 | 20.0 | 609 790 |
Poorer quantile | 23.4 | 2256 | 20.0 | 625 444 |
Middle quantile | 18.4 | 1744 | 20.0 | 586 096 |
Richer quantile | 14.7 | 1244 | 20.0 | 535 071 |
Richest quantile | 9.3 | 756 | 20.0 | 512 642 |
Highest educational level | ||||
No education | 47.3 | 4087 | 30.2 | 879 880 |
Primary | 19.7 | 1858 | 23.0 | 676 899 |
Secondary | 29.1 | 2681 | 37.5 | 1 072 826 |
Higher Secondary or higher levels | 3.7 | 315 | 9.2 | 232 787 |
Sex | ||||
Male | 65.0 | 5795 | 50.2 | 1 442 520 |
Female | 34.9 | 3178 | 49.8 | 1 426 523 |
Age-groups | ||||
0–5 years | 1.1 | 119 | 10.9 | 320 613 |
6–17 years | 6.1 | 628 | 23.4 | 694 263 |
18–29 years | 12.4 | 1178 | 21.5 | 610 077 |
30–59 years | 50.6 | 4606 | 34.0 | 959 987 |
60+ | 29.7 | 2442 | 10.3 | 284 103 |
Place of residence | ||||
Urban | 27.2 | 2013 | 33.0 | 804 654 |
Rural | 72.8 | 6960 | 67.0 | 2 064 389 |
Social group | ||||
Scheduled castes | 25.2 | 1790 | 21.4 | 518 354 |
Scheduled tribes | 11.6 | 2342 | 9.7 | 529 947 |
Other backward castes | 42.4 | 3137 | 44.4 | 1 103 360 |
Other 'general' castes | 20.0 | 1389 | 23.8 | 585 723 |
Total | 8973 | 2 859 955 |
Note (A): OBC is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes which are educationally or socially disadvantaged. It is one of several official classifications of the population of India, along with Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs) (Wikipedia, accessed on 15 March 2019).
Note (B): The ‘N’ denotes unweighted number of observations, but the percentage distribution figures account for sampling weights.
Source: Authors’ calculations from NFHS-4 data.
NFHS-4, National Family Health Survey-Round 4; OBC, other backward class; TB, tuberculosis.