Article History
Accepted: 23 January 2021
First Online: 22 February 2021
Declarations
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: The present study utilised household-level data from current NSS 75th round survey on the theme ‘Social consumption in India: Health’. The NSS is a countrywide large-scale population-based survey organisation under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India. The NSS obtained ethical consensus from the review committee of the project while in the second stage, consent was taken from the respondents and duly undersigned, and only once he/she had agreed to participate in the study was any data collected. This study utilised secondary data that is accessible in the public domain and this dataset does not include any personal information of respondents.
: None declared.
: The study results presented here do not involve human subject research, hence consent was not required.
: Our study did not use any funding for conducting data acquisition and analysis.
: Our study utilised the NSS 75th round survey data, which is publicly accessible to individuals both countrywide and worldwide on ExternalRef removed.
: JY conceived the idea for the study and developed the analysis plan. JY led the analysis and organised the first draft of manuscript. JY, DJ and GRM conducted data interpretation and manuscript writing. GRM, DJ and JY read and approved the preliminary manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
: The author acknowledges the National Sample Survey Organisation (SSSO), MOSPI, India, for data collection and providing data for analysis.