Sample sizes, age standardised percentages and age-adjusted odd ratios with 95% confidence intervals for self-perceived bad health and limitations in activities in daily living across caste and socioeconomic indicators
| No of women | Age standardised percentages | Age-adjusted ORs* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bad health† | Limitations in ADLs‡ | Bad health† | Limitations in ADLs‡ | ||
| ADL, activities in daily living; OBC, other backward castes; SC/ST, scheduled castes/schedule tribes. | |||||
| *ORs were estimated by Mantel–Haenszel statistics. | |||||
| †Perceived health was converted into a binary variable for these calculations, bad health versus the rest. | |||||
| ‡Limitations in ADLs was converted into a binary variables for these calculations, great and moderate limitations versus the rest. | |||||
| Caste of household | |||||
| SC/ST | 950 | 24.7 | 28.4 | 1.88 (1.5 to 2.3) | 1.45 (1.2 to 1.8) |
| OBC | 1 655 | 22.9 | 30.7 | 1.73 (1.4 to 2.1) | 1.72 (1.4 to 2.1) |
| Forward | 1 591 | 16.3 | 22.6 | Reference | Reference |
| Education of woman | |||||
| None | 493 | 33.8 | 43.5 | 2.14 (1.7 to 2.7) | 2.14 (1.7 to 2.7) |
| Primary | 527 | 24.2 | 28.8 | 1.50 (1.2 to 1.9) | 1.35 (1.1 to 1.7) |
| High school and above | 3 176 | 17.4 | 24.0 | Reference | Reference |
| Occupation of woman | |||||
| Wage | 384 | 22.7 | 24.8 | 1.07 (0.8 to 1.4) | 0.87 (0.7 to 1.1) |
| Non-wage | 376 | 13.2 | 21.3 | 0.53 (0.4 to 0.8) | 0.64 (0.5 to 0.9) |
| Not engaged | 3 436 | 21.0 | 27.6 | Reference | Reference |
| Household land size (cents) | |||||
| <10 | 860 | 27.0 | 30.4 | 2.22 (1.8 to 2.8) | 1.53 (1.2 to 1.9) |
| 10–50 | 1 234 | 22.9 | 29.3 | 1.69 (1.4 to 2.1) | 1.45 (1.2 to 1.7) |
| >50 | 2 102 | 16.7 | 23.9 | Reference | Reference |