Table 5.

Adjusted odds ratio for predicting tuberculosis by multidimensional poverty and selected risk factors in India, 2015–16

Background characteristics	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	Robust Standard Error	P- value
Multidimensional Poverty
Multidimensional Non-Poor (Ref.)
Multidimensional Poor	1.83***(1.74–1.91)	0.04	< 0.001
Age
Less than 15 (Ref.)
15–44	4.90***(4.47–5.36)	0.23	< 0.001
45–59	11.58***(10.55–12.73)	0.56	< 0.001
60+	16.04***(14.59–17.62)	0.77	< 0.001
Sex
Female (Ref.)
Male	0.56***(0.54–0.59)	0.01	< 0.001
Smoking Behaviour
No Smoking (Ref.)
Smoking	1.25***(1.2–1.30)	0.03	< 0.001
Crowding
No crowding (Ref.)
Over crowding	1.26***(1.20–1.32)	0.03	< 0.001
Place of Residence
Urban (Ref.)
Rural	1.11***(1.05–1.17)	0.03	< 0.001
Religion
Hindu (Ref.)
Muslim	1.29***(1.21–1.38)	0.04	< 0.001
Christian	1.99***(1.85–2.15)	0.07	< 0.001
Others	1.24***(1.13–1.37)	0.06	< 0.001
Caste
Others (Ref.)
SC	0.98 (0.91–1.05)	0.03	0.609
ST	0.84***(0.79–0.89)	0.03	< 0.001
OBC	0.70***(0.65–0.75)	0.03	< 0.001

Note: The odds ratio are adjusted for all variables in the table