The burden of mental health illnesses in Kerala: a secondary analysis of reported data from 2002 to 2018

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Table 1 Number of persons with mental retardation and mental illness per 100,000 population from 2002 to 2018

Source of Data	Mental retardation/ Intellectual Disability						Mental illness
	Kerala			India			Kerala			India
	Male	Female	Person	Male	Female	Person	Male	Female	Person	Male	Female	Person
NSS 58th 2002	234	160	194	115	72	94	282	263	272	122	86	105
Census 2011	215	168	191	140	108	124	205	185	194	67	52	60
NSS 76th 2018	400	300	300	200	200	200	400	400	400	100	100	100

Source: Compiled by authors from NSS 58th round [29], Census of India 2011 [30], NSS 76th round [11]

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