Table 1. General profile of telephonically surveyed households belonging to indigenous communities of Jharkhand, India.
| Characteristics | Lockdown phase (May-June, 2020) (N = 152) |
Unlock phase (Sept-Oct, 2020) (N = 151) |
p value† |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age of the respondent [Mean (SD)] | 33.2 (±11.2) | 31.52 (±8.8) | 0.148 |
| Gender of the respondent, n (%) | 0.764 | ||
| Male | 116 (76.3) | 113 (74.8) | |
| Female | 36 (23.7) | 38 (25.2) | |
| Households, n (%) | 0.011** | ||
| Sauria Paharia | 49 (32.2) | 72 (47.7) | |
| Santhal | 35 (23.0) | 20 (13.3) | |
| Munda | 68 (44.8) | 59 (39.0) | |
| Type of farming*, n (%) | 0.000** | ||
| Only Farm | 18 (11.9) | 30 (19.9) | |
| Only Kurwa | 24 (15.8) | 47 (31.2) | |
| Only Bari | 3 (2.0) | 1 (0.7) | |
| Any two sources | 97 (63.9) | 71 (47.0) | |
| All three sources | 95 (62.5) | – | |
| None | 3 (2.0) | 2 (1.4) | |
| Primary source of income, n (%) | 0.939 | ||
| Agriculture | 110 (72.4) | 112 (74.2) | |
| Daily wage labor | 28 (18.4) | 26 (17.2) | |
| Others (own business, remittances, etc) | 14 (9.2) | 13 (8.6) |
*
Multiple responses were captured as households practiced multiple types of farming.
**
p < 0.05.
†
Continuous variable (age of the respondent) following a normal distribution between the indigenous communities were compared using independent t-test and the remaining categorical variables were compared using Chi-square test.