Table 5.

Proportion residing with older woman by socio-economic characteristics

Characteristic	Co-resident husband	Migrant husband	Widowed/separated	Total
All India	0.34	0.56	0.33	0.35
Age of the woman
20	0.69	0.94	0.86	0.70
30	0.47	0.73	0.70	0.49
40	0.26	0.34	0.33	0.26
49	0.14	0.19	0.13	0.14
Woman’s education
Illiterate	0.29	0.47	0.26	0.29
1–5 grade education	0.32	0.58	0.39	0.33
6–9 grade education	0.42	0.70	0.46	0.43
10 grade-some college	0.49	0.75	0.49	0.49
College graduate	0.46	0.64	0.58	0.47
Place of residence
Rural	0.37	0.58	0.33	0.38
Urban	0.28	0.42	0.34	0.29
Social group
Forward caste	0.39	0.62	0.38	0.40
Other backward classes	0.35	0.59	0.37	0.36
Dalit	0.32	0.48	0.28	0.32
Adivasi	0.32	0.37	0.22	0.31
Muslim	0.29	0.53	0.35	0.30
Christian, Sikh and Jain	0.39	n.a.a	0.35	0.40

^aNot available, cell size less than 50.