Table 1.
Variable | Total (n = 200) | Manipur (n = 100) | Nagaland (n = 100) | p value | |||
% | n | % | n | % | n | ||
Ethnicity | |||||||
- Meitei | 39.5 | 79 | 79.0 | 79 | 0 | 0 | < 0.01 |
- Naga | 45.5 | 91 | 4.0 | 4 | 87.0 | 87 | |
- Kuki | 6.0 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
- Other | 9.0 | 18 | 5.0 | 5 | 13.0 | 13 | |
Religion | |||||||
- Hindu | 40.0 | 80 | 74.0 | 74 | 6.0 | 6 | < 0.01 |
- Muslim | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 2 | |
- Christian | 57.0 | 114 | 22.0 | 22 | 92.0 | 92 | |
- Other | 2.0 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Education | |||||||
- None | 4.5 | 9 | 4.0 | 4 | 5.0 | 5 | = 0.06 |
- Schooling not completed | 47.5 | 95 | 38.0 | 38 | 57.0 | 57 | |
- Schooling completed | 37.0 | 74 | 46.0 | 46 | 28.0 | 28 | |
- Graduate | 9.5 | 19 | 11.0 | 11 | 8.0 | 8 | |
- Post-graduate | 1.5 | 3 | 1.0 | 1 | 2.0 | 2 | |
Employment | |||||||
- Employed | 17.9 | 35 | 11.5 | 11 | 24.0 | 24 | = 0.02 |
- Unemployed | 82.1 | 161 | 88.5 | 85 | 76.0 | 76 | |
Other sources of income* | |||||||
- Family | 83.8 | 165 | 93.0 | 93 | 74.2 | 72 | < 0.01 |
- Partner | 9.1 | 18 | 12.0 | 12 | 6.2 | 6 | = 0.16 |
- Friends | 44.7 | 88 | 71.0 | 71 | 17.5 | 17 | < 0.01 |
- Selling drugs | 32.0 | 63 | 48.0 | 48 | 15.5 | 15 | < 0.01 |
- Stealing | 38.1 | 75 | 56.0 | 56 | 19.6 | 19 | < 0.01 |
- Pawning goods | 54.8 | 108 | 78.0 | 78 | 30.9 | 30 | < 0.01 |
- Sex work | 6.1 | 12 | 4.0 | 4 | 8.2 | 8 | = 0.21 |
- Other† | 16.8 | 33 | 17.0 | 17 | 16.5 | 16 | = 0.92 |
Housing | |||||||
- Homeless | 2.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 4 | < 0.01 |
- Living with family | 70.5 | 141 | 86.0 | 86 | 55.0 | 55 | |
- Living with friend | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | |
- Renting | 18.5 | 37 | 12.0 | 12 | 25.0 | 25 | |
- Other | 8.5 | 17 | 2.0 | 2 | 15.0 | 15 |
*More than one response possible
†E.g. driving/pedalling a rickshaw, casual labouring, small business (eg. vegetable selling) and gambling