Socio-demographic factors

Sub-group

Knowledge on “sputum is used for diagnosis of TB”

Know

Don’t know

Χ² value

p value

Social groups^*

ST (n = 444)

272 (61.3%)

172 (38.7%)

7.59

0.005

SC (n = 445)

221 (49.6%)

224 (50.4%)

29.4

0.0001

MBC (n = 316)

218 (69.0%)

98 (31.0%)

0.69

0.4

OBC (n = 585)

316 (54.0%)

269 (46.0%)

21.0

0.0001

General (n = 203)

147 (72.4%)

56 (27.6%)

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Age groups

≥60 Years (n = 91)

48 (52.7%)

43 (47.3%)

3.46

0.06

40 - 59 years (n = 453)

237 (52.3%)

216 (47.7%)

11.2

0.0008

25 - 39 years (n = 956)

578 (60.4%)

378 (39.6%)

0.94

0.33

15 - 24 years (n = 493)

311 (63.0%)

182 (37.0%)

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Gender

Female (n = 932)

531 (56.9%)

401 (43.1%)

2.69

0.10

Male (n = 1061)

643 (60.6%)

418 (39.4%)

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Religion

Hindu (n = 1974)

1169 (59.2%)

805 (40.8%)

8.4

0.003

Muslim (n = 19)

5 (26.3%)

14 (73.7%)

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