Table 1 Rural–urban differential in select characteristics of the study sample, LASI (2017-2018)
Total | Rural | Urban | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Background characteristics | Freq | % | Freq | % | Freq | % | |
Place of Residence | Rural | 39,007 | 69.9 | ||||
Urban | 20,603 | 30.1 | |||||
Sex | Male | 27,593 | 45.9 | 18,238 | 46.7 | 9355 | 43.9 |
Female | 32,017 | 54.1 | 20,769 | 53.3 | 11,248 | 56.1 | |
Age group | 45–59 years | 31,129 | 49.8 | 20,050 | 51.4 | 11,079 | 53.8 |
60 years & above | 28,481 | 50.2 | 18,957 | 48.6 | 9524 | 46.2 | |
Marital Status | Currently married | 44,881 | 74.2 | 29,566 | 75.0 | 15,315 | 72.4 |
Others | 14,729 | 25.8 | 9441 | 25.0 | 5288 | 27.7 | |
Religion | Muslim | 7085 | 11.0 | 3764 | 9.6 | 3321 | 14.2 |
Hindu | 43,726 | 82.5 | 29,071 | 84.0 | 14,655 | 79.2 | |
Others | 8799 | 6.4 | 6172 | 6.4 | 2627 | 6.6 | |
Social Group | SC | 10,036 | 19.4 | 7315 | 22.3 | 2721 | 12.7 |
ST | 10,460 | 8.6 | 8089 | 10.8 | 2371 | 3.3 | |
OBC | 22,488 | 45.7 | 14,660 | 44.1 | 7828 | 49.3 | |
Others | 16,626 | 26.4 | 8943 | 22.8 | 7683 | 34.7 | |
Economic Status | Poorest | 11,791 | 21.1 | 7614 | 20.6 | 4177 | 22.2 |
Poorer | 12,021 | 21.3 | 7820 | 21.9 | 4201 | 19.9 | |
Middle | 12,039 | 20.4 | 7910 | 21.0 | 4129 | 19.1 | |
Richer | 12,014 | 19.6 | 7879 | 19.5 | 4135 | 20.0 | |
Richest | 11,745 | 17.6 | 7784 | 17.1 | 3961 | 18.7 | |
Education | Not literate | 29,730 | 53.5 | 23,315 | 62.8 | 6415 | 32.0 |
Primary or below | 13,201 | 20.6 | 8235 | 20.0 | 4966 | 22.0 | |
Secondary | 10,990 | 16.2 | 5539 | 12.5 | 5451 | 24.7 | |
Higher secondary or above | 5689 | 9.7 | 1918 | 4.7 | 3771 | 21.3 | |
Work Status | Never worked | 16,330 | 26.1 | 9187 | 22.2 | 7143 | 35.4 |
Currently not working | 17,094 | 29.5 | 11,236 | 29.9 | 5858 | 28.7 | |
Currently working | 26,186 | 44.3 | 18,584 | 48.0 | 7602 | 35.9 | |
Health Insurance | Covered | 13,794 | 20.4 | 9643 | 21.0 | 4151 | 18.9 |
Not covered | 45,816 | 79.7 | 29,364 | 79.0 | 16,452 | 81.1 | |
Region | North | 10,976 | 12.7 | 6881 | 12.6 | 4095 | 12.8 |
Central | 8181 | 21.0 | 6378 | 23.7 | 1803 | 14.7 | |
East | 10,735 | 23.7 | 8092 | 27.7 | 2643 | 14.5 | |
Northeast | 7726 | 3.4 | 5773 | 4.0 | 1953 | 2.1 | |
West | 7846 | 15.8 | 4086 | 13.1 | 3760 | 22.2 | |
South | 14,146 | 23.4 | 7797 | 18.9 | 6349 | 33.7 | |
Comorbidity | None | 30,983 | 51.5 | 21,607 | 53.9 | 9376 | 45.7 |
At least one | 28,627 | 48.6 | 17,400 | 46.1 | 11,227 | 54.3 | |
Physical Activity | Inactive | 38,339 | 62.9 | 23,646 | 60.3 | 14,693 | 68.8 |
Moderately active | 8609 | 14.6 | 5507 | 13.7 | 3102 | 16.8 | |
Highly active | 12,662 | 22.5 | 9854 | 26.0 | 2808 | 14.4 | |
Tobacco Consumption | Never consumed | 37,603 | 62.3 | 22,665 | 57.2 | 14,938 | 74.1 |
Currently not consuming any | 3291 | 4.9 | 2154 | 5.1 | 1137 | 4.4 | |
Smokes only | 7138 | 11.8 | 5350 | 13.5 | 8.68 | 7.7 | |
Uses smokeless tobacco only | 10,478 | 19.3 | 7961 | 22.1 | 12.22 | 13.0 | |
Both smokable and smokeless | 1100 | 1.8 | 877 | 2.1 | 223 | 0.9 | |
Body Mass Index | Normal | 31,443 | 52.0 | 21,766 | 54.8 | 9677 | 45.5 |
Underweight | 10,949 | 21.2 | 9170 | 26.2 | 1779 | 9.6 | |
Overweight | 17,218 | 26.8 | 8071 | 19.1 | 9147 | 44.8 | |
Hypertension | No | 30,227 | 53.0 | 21,339 | 57.3 | 8888 | 43.1 |
Yes | 29,383 | 47.0 | 17,668 | 42.7 | 11,715 | 56.9 | |
TOTAL | 59,610 | 100.0 | 39,007 | 69.9 | 20,603 | 30.1 | |