TABLE 5.

Demographic Characteristics of Households Included in the Survey, Bihar and Jharkhand States of India, 2016

Variables	Bihar		Jharkhand		Total
	Control (n=250)	Intervention (n=500)	Control (n=100)	Intervention (n=200)	Control (N=350)	Intervention (N=700)
Population of villagesa	112,522	394,497	12,590	37,516	125,112	432,013
Total no. of householdsa	24,431	63,944	2471	7620	26,902	71,564
Distance to nearest PHC, mean (km)	11.0	9.0	14.3	12.6	11.9	10.1
Average no. of family members in the surveyed households	10.1	9.5	6.0	5.6	8.9	8.4
Caste group, %
General	12.8	13.4	0.0	0.5	9.1	9.7
Other Backward Caste	42.0	43.6	10.0	13.0	32.9	34.9
Scheduled Caste	31.2	27.2	9.0	3.5	24.9	20.4
Scheduled Tribe	6.4	8.2	78.0	82.0	26.9	29.3
Mahadalitb	6.8	5.8	1.0	0.0	5.1	4.1
Not disclosed	0.8	1.8	2.0	1.0	1.1	1.6
Religious affiliation, %
Hindu	85.2	83.8	37.0	41.5	71.4	71.7
Muslim	13.6	15.0	0.0	0.5	9.7	10.9
Christian	0.8	0.4	35.0	33.5	10.6	9.9
Sikh	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Jain	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Buddhist	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
Sarna	0.0	0.6	27.0	23.5	7.7	7.1
Not disclosed	0.4	0.2	0.0	1.0	0.3	0.4
Major occupation, %
Agriculture	32.4	31.3	95.0	87.5	50.3	47.4
Labor	44.8	44.1	1.0	2.5	32.3	32.2
Service	5.6	5.2	2.0	2.0	4.6	4.3
Business	10.0	11.2	1.0	2.0	7.4	8.6
Other	7.2	8.2	1.0	6.0	5.4	7.6
Income category, %
Below the poverty level	74.0	70.6	90.0	86.5	78.6	75.1
Above the poverty level	22.0	25.4	9.0	12.5	18.3	21.7
Don't know	4.0	4.0	1.0	1.0	3.1	3.1

Abbreviation: PHC, primary health center.

^aData from government IRS microplan.

^bLowest Scheduled Caste subcategory.