Table 2 Socio-Economic Profile of the Study Participants
From: Patterns of illness disclosure among Indian slum dwellers: a qualitative study
Kolkata | Bangalore | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Motijheel (n = 69) | SahidSmriti (n = 66) | Nakkle-Bande (n = 48) | UllaluUpanagar (n = 62) | |||||
|  | Men (n = 33) | Women (n = 36) | Men (n = 34) | Women (n = 32) | Men (n = 29) | Women (n = 19) | Men (n = 33) | Women (n = 29) |
Age | ||||||||
 Undertwenties | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
 Twenties | 6 | 14 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
 Thirties | 10 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 8 |
 Forties | 7 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
 Fifties | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
 Sixties | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Place of origin | ||||||||
 Rural | 1 | 10 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
 Within city | 15 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
 Displaced | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 9 |
 Outside state | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
 Outside country | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Linguistic groups | ||||||||
 Hindi/Urdu | 15 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
 Bengali | 18 | 19 | 30 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Kannada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 8 |
 Tamil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 |
 Telugu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Family types | ||||||||
 Nuclear | 18 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 17 | 20 | 24 |
 Joint | 15 | 26 | 28 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 5 |
Occupation | ||||||||
 Fully employed | 19 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 19 | 6 |
 Contractual | 9 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 17 |
 Unemployed | 5 | 13 | 7 | 31 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Monthly income (INR) | ||||||||
 0–2000 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
 2001–4000 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 12 |
 4001–6000 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 14 |
 6000 and over | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 |