Article History
Received: 8 April 2020
Accepted: 12 June 2020
First Online: 16 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The secondary dataset analysed for this article are from the National Sample Survey, 60th and 71st Round, which contains anonymised data in the public domain. The researchers had no access to personal identifiable data. The survey is undertaken by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation of the Government of India. Data available in public domain are approved for use for research purpose by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. For the 2019 survey, written informed consent was taken from all respondents and approval was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee of State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh with Reference number: SHRC-07-2019. The data was anonymised.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.