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. 2015 Nov 6;30(Suppl 2):S155–S166. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2015.30.S2.S155

Distribution (in %) of actual (unstandardized) and need-standardized health care utilization in previous 15 days by education, major Indian states 2004.

States Illiterate Up to primary Up to secondary Higher
Actual IS* Actual IS Actual IS Actual IS
Andhra Pradesh 26.6 25.9 46.1 46.7 48.4 47.3 53.9 52.9
Assam 31.5 31.0 32.1 33.7 19.2 19.0 32.5 35.3
Bihar 13.1 12.4 12.7 13.2 17.6 20.4 13.1 15.9
Chhattisgarh 11.9 13.3 11.8 14.6 6.3 1.4 37.9 33.2
Gujarat 23.0 25.0 30.7 34.0 27.1 29.1 36.3 41.1
Haryana 21.5 22.1 24.5 26.5 21.9 25.4 20.0 22.7
Himachal Pradesh 24.5 25.1 29.7 32.1 33.1 37.1 37.3 43.5
Jammu & Kashmir 23.4 21.5 29.7 30.2 17.3 21.4 23.6 25.8
Jharkhand 7.8 6.5 4.3 2.3 22.9 25.8 14.9 14.6
Karnataka 15.4 16.0 25.6 26.6 21.7 25.4 44.2 46.1
Kerala 52.0 45.2 54.9 51.4 51.7 51.6 53.4 54.2
Madhya Pradesh 16.4 15.8 25.0 25.9 25.1 26.3 23.5 24.8
Maharashtra 27.9 28.4 31.4 32.0 38.2 40.9 44.1 48.0
Orissa 10.6 8.5 12.3 12.1 18.5 18.6 7.5 13.4
Punjab 33.4 33.4 35.4 37.6 35.4 38.6 19.0 25.4
Rajasthan 13.6 13.3 19.9 20.7 21.1 21.3 34.1 33.8
Tamil Nadu 18.5 20.8 30.9 33.6 38.6 42.3 31.2 35.1
Uttar Pradesh 21.0 19.9 21.0 21.9 27.5 29.0 31.3 33.8
Uttaranchal 12.0 12.6 9.0 10.7 18.8 22.2 30.9 36.8
West Bengal 30.2 26.7 36.3 33.1 37.8 37.6 45.5 46.8

Standard errors are not reported here due to space constraints. *IS refers to indirectly standardized estimates of health care utilization.