Table 1 Distribution of ST and Non-ST older adults by socio-demographic, health-related and household characteristics in India 2017–18
Characteristics | Older adults (60 + years) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
ST older adults | Non-ST older adults | |||
N | WC % | N | WC % | |
Depression status | ||||
 Not depressed | 4,857 | 95.2 | 23,650 | 91.1 |
 Depressed | 168 | 4.8 | 1,962 | 8.9 |
Age group | ||||
 Oldest-old | 530 | 7.9 | 2,597 | 11.0 |
 Old-old | 1,384 | 28.6 | 7,459 | 30.0 |
 Young-old | 3,111 | 63.6 | 15,556 | 59.0 |
Gender | ||||
 Male | 2,371 | 45.1 | 12,311 | 47.4 |
 Female | 2,654 | 54.9 | 13,301 | 52.6 |
Current marital status | ||||
 Currently married | 3,149 | 61.3 | 16,367 | 61.9 |
 Currently not married | 1,876 | 38.7 | 9,245 | 38.1 |
Status of work | ||||
 Never worked | 1,096 | 14.2 | 7,444 | 27.5 |
 Currently not working | 1,605 | 35.5 | 8,976 | 35.8 |
 Currently working | 1,964 | 45.3 | 6,925 | 29.1 |
 Retired | 360 | 5.0 | 2,267 | 7.5 |
Level of education | ||||
 No formal education | 3,147 | 73.6 | 13,241 | 55.1 |
 Upto primary | 1,280 | 17.9 | 6,110 | 23.2 |
 Secondary and above | 598 | 8.5 | 6,261 | 21.8 |
Social participation | ||||
 Socially active | 4,553 | 90.1 | 23,665 | 91.5 |
 Socially inactive | 472 | 9.9 | 1,947 | 8.5 |
Importance of religion | ||||
 Not important | 992 | 29.7 | 5,016 | 20.5 |
 Very important | 4,033 | 70.3 | 20,596 | 79.5 |
Living arrangement satisfaction | ||||
 Satisfied | 4,040 | 74.6 | 19,956 | 74.9 |
 Neutral | 817 | 20.6 | 4,389 | 19.4 |
 Not satisfied | 168 | 4.7 | 1,267 | 5.7 |
Received ill-treatment | ||||
 No | 4,894 | 95.6 | 24,473 | 94.8 |
 Yes | 131 | 4.4 | 1,139 | 5.2 |
Faced discrimination in life | ||||
 No | 4,431 | 83.9 | 21,535 | 82.4 |
 Yes | 594 | 16.1 | 4,077 | 17.6 |
Self-rated health | ||||
 Good | 836 | 15.4 | 3,488 | 13.5 |
 Average | 3,440 | 67.0 | 16,140 | 63.0 |
 Poor | 749 | 17.6 | 5,984 | 23.6 |
Chronic morbidity status | ||||
 No condition | 3,119 | 66.6 | 10,932 | 45.2 |
 Single condition | 1,207 | 22.7 | 7,819 | 29.8 |
 Multiple conditions | 699 | 10.7 | 6,861 | 25.0 |
Physical activity status | ||||
 Physically inactive | 3,403 | 61.5 | 19,216 | 73.3 |
 Physically active | 1,622 | 38.5 | 6,396 | 26.7 |
Difficulty in ADL | ||||
 No difficulty | 4,211 | 80.5 | 20,153 | 76.8 |
 Faces difficulty | 814 | 19.5 | 5,459 | 23.2 |
Difficulty in IADL | ||||
 No difficulty | 3,119 | 56.4 | 14,202 | 52.0 |
 Faces difficulty | 1,906 | 43.6 | 11,410 | 48.0 |
Covered by health insurance | ||||
 Yes | 1,506 | 29.6 | 4,964 | 17.4 |
 No | 3,519 | 70.4 | 20,648 | 82.6 |
Household MPCE Quintile | ||||
 Poorest | 1,452 | 33.9 | 4,827 | 20.7 |
 Poorer | 1,081 | 25.1 | 5,223 | 21.4 |
 Middle | 948 | 17.2 | 5,307 | 21.0 |
 Richer | 844 | 14.4 | 5,186 | 19.8 |
 Richest | 700 | 9.3 | 5,069 | 17.1 |
Religion of household | ||||
 Hinduism | 2,114 | 79.0 | 20,345 | 83.0 |
 Islam | 572 | 2.6 | 3,050 | 11.5 |
 Others | 2,339 | 18.3 | 2,217 | 5.5 |
Place of residence | ||||
 Urban | 1,100 | 10.9 | 9,331 | 30.7 |
 Rural | 3,925 | 89.1 | 16,281 | 69.3 |
Country region | ||||
 Southern | 774 | 8.9 | 6,592 | 23.5 |
 Northern | 371 | 13.4 | 7,417 | 26.2 |
 Central | 395 | 18.4 | 1,651 | 7.7 |
 Western | 738 | 22.0 | 3,440 | 16.8 |
 Eastern | 562 | 25.7 | 5,057 | 23.6 |
 orth-eastern | 2,185 | 11.6 | 1,455 | 2.2 |
Overall | 5,025 | 100 | 25,612 | 100 |