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Table 1 Socioeconomic and demographic information obtained

From: Illness Mapping: a time and cost effective method to estimate healthcare data needed to establish community-based health insurance

 

Mean (± SEa)

Income-proxy per person per monthb (INR)

832.62 (± 7.05)

Household size

7.97 (± 0.04)

 

Share of population

Education of population (15 years and older)

 

  No schooling

43.67%

  Class 1-5

12.08%

  Class 6-10

34.55%

  Class 11 and higher

9.69%

Economic activity of income earners (15 years and older)

 

  Daily wage labourer

60.43%

  Self-employed in agriculture

24.30%

  Self-employed in business/trade

7.89%

  Regular salaried employee

7.38%

  1. a SE = Standard Error.
  2. b monthly per capita consumer expenditure – our proxy for income – is obtained through questions on many items of household expenditure (excluding healthcare expenditures).