Table A.4.
Descriptive analysis of sociodemographic variables by exposure to community health workers
| Characteristic | Total n = 166,498 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No CHW Antenatal Care n = 142,529 | Any CHW Antenatal Care n = 23,969 | No ASHA Antenatal Care n = 156,595 | ASHA Antenatal Care n = 9903 | No Anganwadi Worker Antenatal Care n = 149,524 | Anganwadi Worker Antenatal Care n = 16,974 | No Community/Village Health Worker n = 165,647 | Community/Village Health Worker n = 851 | |
| Mother's Age at Childbirth | ||||||||
| Median (IQR) | 24 (22–28) | 24 (21–28) | 24 (22–28) | 24 (21–28) | 24 (22–28) | 24 (21–27) | 24 (22–28) | 25 (22–29) |
| Woman's Age at Marriage | ||||||||
| Median (IQR) | 19 (17–21) | 18 (16–20) | 19 (16–21) | 18 (16–21) | 19 (16–21) | 18 (16–20) | 19 (16–21) | 19 (17–21) |
| Wealth Index | ||||||||
| Poorest | 33,001 (22.3%) | 7790 (30.1%) | 37,630 (22.9%) | 3161 (32.2%) | 35,113 (22.8%) | 5678 (29.2%) | 40,596 (23.4%) | 195 (23.2%) |
| Poorer | 31,067 (19.8%) | 6362 (26.4%) | 34,504 (20.1%) | 2925 (30.1%) | 33,149 (20.2%) | 4280 (25.4%) | 37,241 (20.7%) | 188 (24.8%) |
| Middle | 28,640 (19.6%) | 4592 (20.4%) | 31,336 (19.8%) | 1896 (18.9%) | 30,021 (19.6%) | 3211 (20.9%) | 33,046 (19.7%) | 186 (20.5%) |
| Richer | 25,927 (19.8%) | 3241 (14.9%) | 28,016 (19.6%) | 1152 (11.6%) | 26,789 (19.5%) | 2379 (15.8%) | 29,001 (19.1%) | 167 (21.2%) |
| Richest | 23,894 (18.5%) | 1984 (8.3%) | 25,109 (17.6%) | 769 (7.3%) | 24,452 (18.0%) | 1426 (8.7%) | 25,763 (17.1%) | 115 (10.4%) |
| Religion | ||||||||
| Hindu | 104,348 (80.3%) | 19,737 (83.4%) | 116,460 (80.9%) | 7625 (78.8%) | 109,457 (80.3%) | 14,628 (85.0%) | 123,490 (80.8%) | 595 (83.9%) |
| Muslim | 18,841 (14.5%) | 2528 (11.4%) | 20,036 (14.0%) | 1333 (14.3%) | 19,906 (14.5%) | 1463 (9.6%) | 21,288 (14.0%) | 81 (10.8%) |
| Christian | 12,959 (2.2%) | 877 (1.8%) | 13,380 (2.2%) | 456 (1.6%) | 13,455 (2.2%) | 381 (1.8%) | 13,688 (2.1%) | 148 (3.6%) |
| Sikh | 2697 (1.5%) | 387 (1.2%) | 2821 (1.4%) | 263 (1.9%) | 2869 (1.5%) | 215 (0.9%) | 3076 (1.5%) | 8 (0.8%) |
| Other | 3684 (1.6%) | 440 (2.2%) | 3898 (1.5%) | 226 (3.4%) | 3837 (1.5%) | 287 (2.7%) | 4105 (1.7%) | 19 (1.0%) |
| Type of Place of Residence | ||||||||
| Urban | 38,769 (32.1%) | 3629 (16.7%) | 41,333 (31.0%) | 1065 (11.8%) | 39,598 (31.3%) | 2800 (18.2%) | 42,172 (29.9%) | 226 (24.7%) |
| Rural | 103,760 (67.9%) | 20,340 (83.3%) | 115,262 (69.0%) | 8838 (88.2%) | 109,926 (68.8%) | 14,174 (81.8%) | 123,475 (70.1%) | 625 (75.4%) |
| Caste | ||||||||
| Scheduled Caste | 27,130 (21.8%) | 5187 (24.9%) | 30,095 (22.0%) | 2222 (26.3%) | 28,650 (22.0%) | 3667 (24.4%) | 32,140 (22.2%) | 177 (28.7%) |
| Scheduled Tribe | 28,943 (9.9%) | 5501 (15.1%) | 32,194 (10.5%) | 2250 (13.7%) | 30,541 (10.0%) | 3903 (16.3%) | 34,218 (10.7%) | 226 (8.9%) |
| Otherwise Backwards Caste | 57,719 (46.0%) | 9888 (43.2%) | 63,998 (46.1%) | 3609 (37.4%) | 60,256 (45.7%) | 7351 (44.9%) | 67,265 (45.6%) | 342 (46.8%) |
| None of Them | 28,737 (22.3%) | 3393 (16.8%) | 30,308 (21.4%) | 1822 (22.6%) | 30,077 (22.3%) | 2053 (14.4%) | 32,024 (21.5%) | 106 (15.6%) |
Baseline sociodemographic characteristics of the cohort according to whether or not a woman received antenatal care from any CHW and specifically from ASHAs, anganwadi workers or Community/Village Health Workers. The frequencies are the actual counts from the cohort of 166,498 women, but the percentages are weighted based on the sampling weights specified by National Family Health Survey-4, so the percentages do not correspond perfectly to the frequencies. Weighting was not incorporated for the median and IQR for Woman's Age at Childbirth and Woman's Age at Marriage.