Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of analytic sample of women aged 15–49 in India, 2015–2016
| All women (n=66 013) | Recent marital sexual violence (n=4372) | |
| Characteristics | Wtd. %/mean | Wtd. %/mean |
| Total | 100% | 5.7%* |
| Age | 33.1 | 32.9 |
| Literacy | 61.4% | 51.8% |
| Education | ||
| None | 33.8% | 43.2% |
| Primary | 14.4% | 17.1% |
| Secondary | 41.9% | 35.1% |
| Higher | 9.8% | 4.6% |
| Household wealth quintile | ||
| Poorest | 18.3% | 29.1% |
| Poorer | 19.8% | 22.6% |
| Middle | 20.6% | 21.4% |
| Richer | 20.9% | 15.9% |
| Richest | 20.3% | 10.9% |
| Religion | ||
| Muslim | 13.1% | 13.2% |
| Hindu and others | 86.9% | 86.8% |
| Caste | ||
| SC/ST† | 28.9% | 37.0% |
| OBC‡ | 44.1% | 42.8% |
| Other caste/general | 27.0% | 20.2% |
| Place of residence | ||
| Rural | 66.4% | 72.5% |
| Urban | 33.6% | 27.5% |
| Region of residence | ||
| North | 13.2% | 9.1% |
| West | 14.6% | 7.9% |
| South | 23.6% | 25.5% |
| Northeast | 3.4% | 2.9% |
| East | 22.9% | 32.2% |
| Central | 22.3% | 22.3% |
*Row per cents. All other per cents are column.
†Scheduled caste/scheduled tribe (legal designations of lower caste and indigenous groups).
‡Other backwards class (legal classification of socially and educationally disadvantaged groups).