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Table 3 Incidence (%) of Use of Different Sources of Finance as a Coping Mechanism to meet the Total Maternity care by Households in India, 2017–18

From: Distress financing in coping with out-of-pocket expenditure for maternity care in India

Variables

Categories

Savings/House Hold Income

Borrowings

Insurance

Others

Age of the Mother (in Years)

15–24

61.4

3.8

27.3

6.8

25–34

61.1

3.1

30.6

4.8

35–44

62.5

3.2

30.3

3.4

45 + 

46.8

2.1

30.4

20.7

Residence

Rural

63.6

3.7

26.4

5.9

Urban

54.6

2.7

37.4

4.8

Literacy of mother

No literate

64.7

3.6

23.9

7.5

Literate without schooling

80.0

2.1

15.6

2.3

Primary

63.8

3.0

26.8

5.5

Secondary

61.8

3.8

28.0

5.9

Higher secondary

59.9

3.4

31.6

5.0

Graduate and above

51.5

2.8

42.2

3.2

Occupation of the mother

Unpaid

61.6

3.4

29.1

5.5

Student

65.3

0.1

27.1

7.6

Self employed

61.0

4.1

26.2

8.8

Casual labour

61.7

3.8

22.6

10.6

Pension

75.7

0.0

16.9

7.4

Other

52.1

10.3

34.2

3.0

Salaried

39.9

3.2

54.3

2.4

Caste

ST

59.0

2.2

33.5

5.0

 

SC

63.2

4.3

25.7

6.4

 

Others

61.0

3.3

29.8

5.4

Religion

Hindu

61.5

3.6

28.8

5.7

Muslim

62.1

3.0

28.4

5.9

Others

54.0

2.2

40.8

3.0

Wealth Quartile

Quartile 1

66.6

3.8

22.4

6.9

Quartile 2

64.3

3.9

24.7

6.7

Quartile 3

60.2

3.8

29.8

5.6

Quartile 4

53.8

2.2

40.4

3.1

Type of Health Facility

Public

64.85

2.0

26.56

6.5

Private

53.95

6.8

35.82

3.4

EAG + A

Uttarakhand

72.1

2.9

20.2

4.9

Rajasthan

40.2

3.5

54.6

0.8

Uttar Pradesh

74.8

3.8

12.1

8.7

Bihar

74.4

4.5

19.1

2.1

Assam

76.3

2.4

20.6

0.8

Jharkhand

49.5

2.7

41.8

5.5

Odisha

64.4

2.3

31.4

2.0

Chhattisgarh

79.9

2.0

14.3

3.3

Madhya Pradesh

72.5

2.4

9.8

14.6

EAG + A

67.9

3.4

22.3

5.9

Non-EAG

Non-EAG

53.6

3.5

37.3

5.3

 

India

57.8

3.1

34.4

4.4

  1. Note: The number of samples for the sale of physical assets category are very less to calculate averages