Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristics of baseline and follow-up samples
| Subgroups | Number (%) of households 2004 |
Number (%) of households 2012 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maharashtra | Andhra Pradesh | Maharashtra | Andhra Pradesh | |
| All | 5314 | 5059 | 10 073 | 8623 |
| Head of household | ||||
| Male | 4785 (90.0) | 4433 (87.6) | 8543 (84.8) | 7418 (86.0) |
| Female | 529 (10.0) | 626 (12.4) | 1530 (15.2) | 1205 (14.0) |
| Social group | ||||
| Scheduled Tribes | 413 (7.8) | 296 (5.9) | 1364 (13.5) | 883 (10.2) |
| Scheduled Castes | 809 (15.2) | 974 (19.3) | 2235 (22.2) | 1797 (20.8) |
| Other excluded | 1644 (30.9) | 2317 (45.8) | 1899 (18.9) | 3419 (39.7) |
| All other groups | 2448 (46.1) | 1472 (29.1) | 4571 (45.4) | 2524 (29.3) |
| Location | ||||
| Rural | 2650 (49.9) | 3235 (63.9) | 5035 (50.0) | 4908 (57.0) |
| Urban | 2664 (50.1) | 1824 (36.1) | 5038 (50.0) | 3715 (43.0) |
| Asset quintile | ||||
| Lowest | 1260 (23.7) | 1594 (31.5) | 996 (9.9) | 826 (9.6) |
| Second | 1016 (19.1) | 1237 (24.5) | 1841 (18.2) | 1286 (14.9) |
| Third | 772 (14.5) | 753 (14.9) | 2228 (22.1) | 2121 (24.60) |
| Fourth | 857 (16.1) | 744 (14.7) | 2373 (23.6) | 3072 (35.6) |
| Fifth | 1408 (26.5) | 730 (14.4) | 2633 (26.1) | 1318 (15.3) |