Table 3. Characteristics of public hospital-based exit interviewees, Odisha, India, 2020.
| Characteristic | No. of respondents (%)a |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Male inpatients (n = 193) |
Female inpatients (n = 209) |
Inpatients of obstetrics–gynaecology departments (n = 105) |
|
| Age in years, mean (SD) | 47.2 (17.6) | 45.2 (17.4) | 25.5 (5.3) |
| Highest educational attainment | |||
| Illiterate | 13 (6.7) | 32 (15.3) | 0 (0.0) |
| No formal schooling | 32 (16.6) | 62 (29.7) | 11 (10.5) |
| Under primary | 11 (5.7) | 22 (10.5) | 13 (12.4) |
| Primary | 39 (20.2) | 21 (10.1) | 15 (14.3) |
| Upper primary and middle | 38 (19.7) | 24 (11.5) | 18 (17.1) |
| Secondary | 29 (15.0) | 25 (12.0) | 23 (21.9) |
| Higher secondary | 19 (9.8) | 13 (6.2) | 21 (20.0) |
| Graduate | 7 (3.6) | 7 (3.4) | 4 (3.8) |
| Caste | |||
| Scheduled tribe | 34 (17.6) | 40 (19.1) | 28 (26.7) |
| Scheduled caste | 23 (11.9) | 36 (17.2) | 25 (23.8) |
| Otherwise backward class | 74 (38.3) | 64 (30.6) | 22 (20.9) |
| Generalb | 61 (31.6) | 67 (32.1) | 29 (27.6) |
| Religion | |||
| Hindu | 189 (97.9) | 205 (98.1) | 100 (95.2) |
| Muslim | 4 (2.1) | 4 (1.9) | 1 (1.0) |
| Christian | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (3.8) |
| Primary languagec | |||
| Odia | 171 (88.6) | 193 (92.3) | 78 (74.3) |
| Hindi | 4 (2.1) | 4 (1.9) | 1 (1.0) |
| Telugu | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.0) | 3 (2.9) |
| Tribal dialect | 16 (8.3) | 9 (4.3) | 21 (20.0) |
SD: standard deviation.
a Values are no. (%) if not otherwise given.
b No historically marginalized caste designation.
c Languages spoken by less than 1% of respondents not included, hence the sum does not equal 100%.
Note: we limited the sampling to public hospitals which are slated to be incorporated within the proposed value-based purchasing programme.