Table 5.
Prevalence of anaemia in the forms of high-risk fertility behaviour among urban ever-married Indian women with background characteristics
| Characteristics | Prevalence of anaemia | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| No risk | Single risk | Multiple risk | |
| Maternal Age | |||
| 15–24 | 57.0 | 64.0 | 68.7 |
| 25–34 | 53.1 | 58.5 | 59.3 |
| 35–49 | 50.3 | 50.7 | 59.7 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Maternal education | |||
| No education | 58.5 | 62.0 | 60.5 |
| Primary | 60.3 | 62.4 | 62.9 |
| Secondary | 55.9 | 58.7 | 58.5 |
| Higher | 48.3 | 49.8 | 59.6 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.102 |
| Household member | 0.2 | ||
| 1–4 Members | 53.3 | 56.4 | 53.8 |
| 5–6 Members | 53.5 | 57.7 | 60.3 |
| 7 + Members | 55.5 | 60.4 | 60.8 |
| p-value | 0.052 | 0.152 | 0.180 |
| Caste | |||
| Schedule Caste | 59.1 | 63.0 | 60.8 |
| Schedule Tribe | 54.6 | 60.0 | 67.6 |
| Other Backward Class | 51.8 | 57.7 | 59.5 |
| Others | 53.6 | 55.6 | 61.3 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.385 |
| Religion | |||
| Hindu | 55.3 | 60.0 | 66.2 |
| Muslim | 50.1 | 55.3 | 52.5 |
| Christian | 43.5 | 45.2 | 55.4 |
| Others | 56.4 | 61.1 | 48.0 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Wealth Status | |||
| Poor | 63.8 | 64.3 | 64.7 |
| Middle | 59.0 | 61.3 | 61.9 |
| Rich | 51.5 | 55.2 | 54.6 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Region | |||
| North | 55.1 | 58.8 | 61.4 |
| Central | 53.8 | 58.3 | 56.8 |
| East | 66.9 | 69.5 | 64.6 |
| North-east | 56.0 | 50.5 | 52.2 |
| West | 54.0 | 58.1 | 65.1 |
| South | 45.1 | 49.3 | 53.3 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Maternal BMI | |||
| Underweight | 63.1 | 68.6 | 70.8 |
| Normal | 54.5 | 58.5 | 57.9 |
| Overweight | 49.6 | 55.0 | 63.8 |
| Obese | 49.5 | 50.1 | 49.0 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Women's height | |||
| < 145 cm | 59.1 | 60.7 | 70.7 |
| > 145 cm | 53.5 | 58.1 | 58.2 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.110 |
| Delivery Type | |||
| Vaginal | 54.8 | 60.0 | 62.0 |
| C-section | 52.7 | 53.0 | 45.9 |
| p-value | 0.159 | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Contraceptive use | 0.1 | ||
| Not using | 52.6 | 59.6 | 58.4 |
| Modern methods | 54.1 | 56.8 | 61.1 |
| Traditional methods | 58.2 | 61.5 | 60.9 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | 0.126 | 0.551 |
| Total | 54.1 | 58.4 | 60.2 |