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. 2007 Dec 5;4:19. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-4-19

Table 1.

Demographic information by state

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