Table 2.
Background information of participants
| Participants background | No of participants in Malkangiri | No of participants in Khurda | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FGDs | Interviews | FGDs | Interviews | |||||
| Gender | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male |
| Education | ||||||||
| Illiterate | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | – | 1 |
| Primary | 2 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Secondary | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | 4 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Higher | 2 | 3 | – | – | 2 | 6 | – | 2 |
| Occupation | ||||||||
| Employee/business | 3 | 5 | 1 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 2 |
| Daily labour | 6 | 6 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Farmer | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | – | – |
| Housewife | 3 | – | 3 | – | 10 | – | 1 | – |
| Student | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Age | ||||||||
| 18–25 years | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – |
| 26–59 years | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 2 |
| >60 years | 1 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 3 | – | 1 |
Illiterate‐someone who cannot, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement on his or her everyday life (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation).