Table 4.
Proportion‡ of most recent diagnostic provider across sociodemographic groups
| MBBS | IAP | NAP | Other QAP | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| urban | rural | urban | rural | urban | rural | urban | rural | |
| Variables (%)*† | ||||||||
| Total | 3990 (88.0%) | 3605 (59.7%) | 357 (7.9%) | 2107 (34.9%) | 117(2.6%) | 158 (2.6%) | 71 (1.6%) | 165 (2.7%) |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | 1777 (88.0%) | 1691 (65.7%) | 155 (7.7%) | 753 (29.2%) | 64 (3.2%) | 81 (3.1%) | 23 (1.1%) | 50 (1.9%) |
| Female | 2214 (88.0%) | 1914 (55.3%) | 201 (8.0%) | 1354 (39.1%) | 53 (2.0%) | 77 (2.2%) | 48 (1.9%) | 115 (3.3%) |
| Age | ||||||||
| 25 - 40 | 1360 (83.1%) | 775 (56.5%) | 189 (11.6%) | 481 (35.1%) | 53 (3.4%) | 45 (3.3%) | 34 (2.1%) | 71 (5.2%) |
| 40 - 50 | 1188 (89.9%) | 791 (58.3%) | 82 (6.2%) | 493 (36.4%) | 31 (2.4%) | 43 (3.2%) | 21 (1.6%) | 29 (2.1%) |
| 50 - 60 | 903 (91.0%) | 916 (63.2%) | 62 (6.3%) | 468 (32.6%) | 18 (1.7%) | 35 (2.4%) | 9 (0.9%) | 31 (2.1%) |
| 60+ | 540 (92.6%) | 1123 (60.5%) | 22 (3.8%) | 664 (35.8%) | 14 (2.4%) | 36 (1.9%) | 7 (1.2%) | 34 (1.8%) |
| Education | ||||||||
| No education | 839 (79.7%) | 1236 (48.9%) | 152 (14.4%) | 1153 (45.6%) | 38 (3.5%) | 53 (2.1%) | 24 (2.3%) | 84 (3.3%) |
| Primary | 614 (83.9%) | 1063 (66.6%) | 74 (10.1%) | 519 (31.0%) | 28 (3.8%) | 49 (2.9%) | 16 (2.2%) | 41 (2.5%) |
| Secondary | 1410 (91.5%) | 1052 (69.3%) | 82 (5.3%) | 389 (25.6%) | 26 (1.8%) | 43 (2.8%) | 23 (1.5%) | 34 (2.2%) |
| Higher secondary | 426 (91.6%) | 159 (81.1%) | 25 (5.4%) | 27 (13.8%) | 9 (2.1%) | 8 (4.1%) | 5 (1.1%) | 2 (1.0%) |
| Higher | 700 (94.3%) | 95 (77.2%) | 24 (3.2%) | 19 (15.4%) | 15 (2.0%) | 5 (4.1%) | 3 (0.4%) | 4 (3.3%) |
| Poverty status | ||||||||
| Most poor | 186 (60.2%) | 215 (36.4%) | 97 (31.4%) | 334 (56.6%) | 17 (5.6%) | 16 (2.7%) | 9 (2.9%) | 25 (4.2%) |
| More poor | 392 (73.6%) | 385 (46.7%) | 65 (16.4%) | 380 (46.1%) | 29 (7.2%) | 28 (3.4%) | 11 (2.8%) | 32 (3.9%) |
| Middle | 611 (87.9%) | 616 (55.2%) | 56 (8.1%) | 438 (39.2%) | 15 (2.2%) | 34 (3.0%) | 13 (1.9%) | 28 (2.5%) |
| Less poor | 957 (90.1%) | 817 (60.3%) | 62 (5.8%) | 464 (34.2%) | 24 (2.3%) | 35 (2.6%) | 19 (1.8%) | 40 (2.9%) |
| Least poor | 1950 (93.9%) | 1538 (76.6%) | 76 (3.7%) | 467 (22.4%) | 31 (1.5%) | 45 (2.2%) | 19 (0.9%) | 39 (1.9%) |
MBBS- Medical Bachelors Bachelor of Surgery; Other QAP- Other Qualified Allopathic Provider; IAP Informal Allopathic Provider; NAP- Non-Allopathic Provider
* P value < 0.05 considered statistically significant, all provider group values were statistically significant compared to each other.
†All figures are based on disease diagnoses not respondents with disease