Table 2 Percentage of households using distress financing by selected socio-economic variables and EAG + A and non-EAG states, India,2014–15 to 2017–18
From: Distress financing in coping with out-of-pocket expenditure for maternity care in India
Variables | Categories | 2014–15 | 2017–18 |
|---|---|---|---|
Age of the mother (in Years) | 15–24 | 19.5 | 14.3 |
25–34 | 15.0 | 11.4 | |
35–44 | 13.3 | 8.8 | |
45 +  | 6.6 | 28.0 | |
Residence | Rural | 17.7 | 12.7 |
Urban | 15.2 | 11.7 | |
Literacy of mother | No literate | 19.4 | 13.7 |
Literate without schooling | 23.9 | 6.9 | |
Primary | 16.8 | 11.7 | |
Secondary | 17.7 | 13.2 | |
Higher secondary | 16.4 | 12.3 | |
Graduate and above | 10.6 | 10.3 | |
Occupation of the mother | Unpaid | - | 12.4 |
Student | - | 8.6 | |
Self-employed | - | 14.6 | |
Casual labour | - | 18.2 | |
Pension | - | 8.5 | |
Other | - | 18.7 | |
Salaried | - | 9.3 | |
Caste | ST | 12.3 | 10.9 |
SC | 19.1 | 14.1 | |
Others | 17.1 | 12.1 | |
Religion | Hindu | 17.1 | 12.8 |
Muslim | 18.0 | 11.6 | |
Others | 12.3 | 9.6 | |
Wealth quartile | Quartile 1 | 18.4 | 13.2 |
Quartile 2 | 19.3 | 13.8 | |
Quartile 3 | 17.1 | 13.2 | |
Quartile 4 | 13.4 | 9.5 | |
Type of health facility | Public | 13.3 | 11.2 |
Private | 23.6 | 15.4 | |
EAG + A | Uttarakhand | 0.7 | 8.1 |
Rajasthan | 7.8 | 7.5 | |
Uttar Pradesh | 14.2 | 14.3 | |
Bihar | 25.1 | 7.7 | |
Assam | 3.3 | 3.6 | |
Jharkhand | 13.4 | 15.0 | |
Odisha | 22.4 | 6.5 | |
Chhattisgarh | 13.7 | 6.8 | |
Madhya Pradesh | 8.9 | 18.3 | |
EAG + A | 14.0 | 11.3 | |
Non-EAG | Non-EAG | 20.0 | 13.8 |
Total | India | 17.0 | 12.5 |