Demographics of the ASHAs participating in the discrete choice experiment (n=299)
| n (%) | |
| Age (years) | |
| Mean age | 35 |
| Range | 20–55 |
| Education | |
| Primary | 64 (21.4) |
| Secondary | 188 (62.9) |
| Higher education | 47 (15.7) |
| ASHA years of service | |
| ≤6 | 73 (24.4) |
| >6 | 226 (75.6) |
| ASHA usual working hours | |
| <6 | 100 (33.4) |
| 6 | 94 (31.4) |
| >6 | 105 (35.1) |
| Proportion of ASHAs residing in the villages they worked in | 295 (98.7) |
| Proportion of ASHAs having other paid duties | 202 (67.6) |
| Proportion of ASHAs being main household earners for their families | 89 (29.8) |
| Proportion of ASHAs having an average household income of less than INR 5000 per month | 182 (60.9) |
ASHA, Accredited Social Health Activist; INR, Indian rupee.