Sociodemographic Determinants of Knowledge towards Tuberculosis Transmission among Women of 15–49 Years of Age in India

Table 3

Association between knowledge regarding transmission of tuberculosis and sociodemographic characteristics of study participants (N = 699,686).

Variables	Tuberculosis spread by: air when coughing or sneezing			value
	No N (%)	Yes N (%)	All participants, N (%)
Age in 5 year groups				≤0.001
15–19	48355 (17.19%)	76523 (18.29%)	124878 (17.85%)
20–24	45572 (16.20%)	77383 (18.49%)	122955 (17.57%)
25–29	44902 (15.97%)	70174 (16.77%)	115076 (16.45%)
30–34	39088 (13.90%)	57960 (13.85%)	97048 (13.87%)
35–39	37491 (13.33%)	52942 (12.65%)	90433 (12.92%)
40–44	33024 (11.74%)	43603 (10.42%)	76627 (10.95%)
45–49	32805 (11.66%)	39864 (9.53%)	72669 (10.39%)
Place of residence				≤0.001
Urban	60043 (21.35%)	144692(34.58%)	204735 (29.26%)
Rural	221194 (78.65%)	273757 (65.42%)	494951 (70.74%)
Education level				≤0.001
Secondary and above	126906 (45.12%)	287934 (68.81%)	414840 (59.29%)
Primary	42761 (15.20%)	45529 (10.88%)	88290 (12.62%)
No education	111570 (39.67%)	84986 (20.31%)	196556 (28.09%)
Wealth index				≤0.001
Rich	72168 (25.66%)	197635 (47.23%)	269803 (38.56%)
Middle	58406 (20.77%)	88762 (21.21%)	147168 (21.03%)
Poor	150663 (53.57%)	132052 (31.56%)	282715 (40.41%)
Religion				≤0.001
Hindu	211803 (75.31%)	307478 (73.48%)	519281 (74.22%)
Muslim	39335 (13.99%)	55256 (13.20%)	94591 (13.52%)
Christian	19149 (6.81%)	32964 (7.88%)	52113 (7.45%)
Other	3778 (1.34%)	4201 (1.00%)	7979 (1.14%)
Caste or tribe				≤0.001
Caste	216323 (76.92%)	346011 (82.69%)	562334 (80.37%)
Tribe	49188 (17.49%)	53969 (12.90%)	103157 (14.74%)
No caste/tribe	13403 (4.77%)	15899 (3.80%)	29302 (4.19%)
Don’t know	1451 (0.52%)	1217 (0.29%)	2668 (0.38%)

values by Chi² test for categorical variables.