Article History
Accepted: 23 September 2024
First Online: 25 October 2024
Declarations
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: The authors have not disclosed any competing interests.
: Not applicable.
: This study used secondary data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS). At the time of data collection, informed consent was obtained from all participants by the IHDS team. As this research used pre-existing data, no additional consent was required from the participants.
: Since this study utilized a publicly available secondary data source, individual consent for publication was obtained during original data collection. Thus, no further consent was necessary for the publication.
: The dataset used for this study, the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), is publicly available and can be accessed through the official IHDS website (https://ihds.umd.edu/data) upon reasonable request or through established access procedures.