Leveraging the private sector for child health: a qualitative examination of caregiver and provider perspectives on private sector care for childhood pneumonia in Uttar Pradesh, India

Table 3 Caregiver characteristics (N = 31)^a

	Total
Mean age of mother (years)	25.4
Highest level of education achieved
None, illiterate	17
None, literate	0
Standard 1-5	5
Standard 6 or higher	9
Religion
Hindu	19
Muslim	10
Other	1
Caste/tribe
Scheduled caste	6
Scheduled tribe	2
Other backward class	11
None	2
Not disclosed	2
Mean number of children in care	2.4
Gender of child with suspected pneumonia
Male	21
Female	10
Mean age of child with suspected pneumonia (months)	18.7

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