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Table 1 Socio-economic and demographic characteristics of persons with accidental injury, India, 2014

From: Does spending matters? Re-looking into various covariates associated with Out of Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) and catastrophic spending on accidental injury from NSSO 71st round data

Co-variates Percent Number
Age
 less than 15 11.9 482
 15–29 24.3 985
 30–59 47.7 1934
 60+ 16.1 654
Sex
 Male 73.3 2973
 Female 26.7 1082
Education levela
 Illiterate 24.1 941
 Up to primary 25.9 1011
 Up to secondary 38.6 1509
 Graduation and above 11.5 449
Residence
 Rural 55.8 2264
 Urban 44.2 1791
Caste
 Scheduled Tribes 9.5 387
 Scheduled Castes 17.9 724
 Other Backward Classes (OBC) 39.3 1595
 Others 33.3 1349
Religion
 Hindu 79.6 3227
 Muslim 12.2 493
 Others 8.3 335
Household size
 1–3 member 21.0 853
 4–6 members 57.6 2335
 7 + members 21.4 867
Wealth quintile
 Poorest 15.0 608
 Poorer 20.9 845
 Middle 19.4 788
 Richer 23.0 935
 Richest 21.7 879
Level of care
 Public 41.2 1670
 Private 58.8 2385
Insurance coveragea
 Not covered 79.2 3098
 Covered 20.8 812
Reimbursement status
 Received 4.3 174
 Not received 95.7 3881
Survival status
 Alive 96.4 3910
 Dead 3.6 145
Duration of stay
 1–2 days 24.3 985
 3–7 days 39.4 1599
 8–14 days 17.0 688
 14+ days 19.2 783
Source of financing
 Household income and saving 69.6 2826
 Borrowings 23.0 933
 Other sources 7.3 296
Regionsb
 North 15.5 628
 Northeast 7.7 312
 East 17.2 697
 Central 22.4 909
 West 13.1 531
 South 24.1 978
Total 100 4055
  1. Source: Authors’ estimates from NSSO survey, 2014
  2. aBased on 3910 cases
  3. b North: J& K Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan; Northeast: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh,, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam; East: Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha; Central: Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh; West: Gujrat, Daman and Diu, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Maharashtra, Goa; South: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar, Telangana