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. 2023 May 23;23:525. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09542-0

Table 1.

Proportion of population who had a perceived health need

Total no in sample (n) Self-reported acute ailment in last 15 days (%) Self-reported Chronic Condition (%) Self-reported Chronic Condition with prompts* (%) Hospitalization rate - hospitalised in last 365 days (%)
Total 3153 10.47 8.18 10.62 5.07
Place of residence
Rural 2012 10.04 6.86 8.55 4.47
Urban 1141 11.22 10.52 14.29 6.13
Sex
Male 1549 8.46 8.13 10.01 3.81
Female 1604 12.41 8.23 11.22 6.30
Age group
0–4 309 19.74 0.94 0.97 3.24
5–14 581 11.57 2.25 2.42 1.21
15–29 920 7.73 3.20 3.31 6.63
30–44 642 9.56 7.89 9.71 5.01
45–59 458 9.83 20.31 29.26 6.11
60 and above 243 9.88 26.75 37.04 9.05
Social groups
Scheduled Tribes (ST) 667 9.71 5.85 7.43 5.65
Schedule Castes (SC) 1052 10.44 9.19 12.53 4.59
Other backward classes (OBC) 933 11.33 8.42 10.60 4.72
Others 501 9.03 13.54 18.75 5.56
Education
Illiterate 1009 12.89 10.04 13.79 4.35
Primary 479 11.88 8.75 11.22 5.04
Secondary 1377 9.22 7.07 8.79 5.25
Above secondary 288 6.59 6.59 8.58 5.79
Occupation
Own Agriculture 646 8.05 6.66 8.82 2.79
Daily wages worker 1621 11.29 6.42 8.57 5.74
Self-employed 407 12.53 11.30 12.29 5.16
Government employee 110 4.55 19.09 25.45 6.36
Private sector employee 319 10.66 10.97 16.30 5.96
Coal Industry Employee 50 10.00 18.18 18.18 4.00
Wealth Index- Rural
Poorest 406 9.36 6.90 8.87 4.93
Poor 408 10.29 4.41 4.90 5.39
Middle 395 10.38 7.34 7.59 4.56
Rich 410 10.73 5.61 8.05 3.17
Richest 393 9.41 10.18 13.49 4.33
Wealth Index-Urban
Poorest 235 15.74 7.66 10.64 5.96
Poor 220 13.18 8.18 10.00 7.27
Middle 230 5.22 10.00 13.48 6.52
Rich 226 16.81 15.93 20.35 6.64
Richest 230 5.22 10.87 16.96 4.35