Research Article
Sociodemographic Determinants of Knowledge towards Tuberculosis Transmission among Women of 15–49 Years of Age in India
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of the study participants (N = 699,686).
| | Variables | N (%) |
| | Age (years) | | | 15–19 | 124878 (17.85%) | | 20–24 | 122955 (17.57%) | | 25–29 | 115076 (16.45%) | | 30–34 | 97048 (13.87%) | | 35–39 | 90433 (12.92%) | | 40–44 | 76627 (10.95%) | | 45–49 | 72669 (10.39%) | | Place of residence | | | Urban | 204735 (29.26%) | | Rural | 494951 (70.74%) | | Education level | | | Secondary and above | 414840 (59.29%) | | Primary | 88290 (12.62%) | | No education | 196556 (28.09%) | | Wealth index | | | Rich | 269803 (38.56%) | | Middle | 147168 (21.03%) | | Poor | 282715 (40.41%) | | Religion | | | Hindu | 519281 (74.22%) | | Muslim | 94591 (13.52%) | | Christian | 52113 (7.45%) | | Sikh | 15300 (2.19%) | | Buddhist/neo-Buddhist | 8981 (1.28%) | | Jain | 1028 (0.15%) | | Jewish | 7 (0.00%) | | Parsi/zoroastrian | 7 (0.00%) | | No religion | 399 (0.06%) | | Other | 7979 (1.14%) | | Caste or tribe | | | Caste | 562334 (80.37%) | | Tribe | 103157 (14.74%) | | No caste/tribe | 29302 (4.19%) | | Don’t know | 2668 (0.38%) |
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