Demographic characteristics of users of ‘108’ ambulance service for IFT and non-IFT in states (April 2013 to March 2014)
| Total | Andhra Pradesh | Chhattisgarh | Gujarat | Himachal Pradesh | Telangana | |||||||
| IFT (n=34 993) (5.8%) | Non-IFT (n=5 73 566) (94.2%) | IFT (n=14 574) (9.9%) | Non-IFT (n=1 32 800) (90.1%) | IFT (n=1929) (3.2%) | Non-IFT (n=58 881) (96.8%) | IFT (n=6562) (2.4%) | Non-IFT (n=2 63 509) (97.6%]) | IFT (n=2809) (11.3%) | Non-IFT (n=22 114) (88.7%) | IFT (n=9119) (8.7%) | Non-IFT (n=96 262) (91.3%) | |
| Age group (years) | ||||||||||||
| <19 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 7.1 | 5.8 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 20–24 | 58.7 | 56.5 | 64.9 | 65.7 | 54.9 | 56.4 | 52.0 | 51.9 | 48.3 | 51.6 | 58.6 | 58.9 |
| 25–30 | 28.1 | 30.6 | 24.0 | 24.9 | 25.0 | 27.9 | 30.1 | 33.2 | 34.5 | 32.0 | 31.4 | 32.2 |
| 30–34 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 8.9 | 7.2 | 11.3 | 9.9 | 9.4 | 8.0 | 4.8 | 4.1 |
| >35 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Total non-missing | (32 538) 100 | (551 568) 100 | (13 105) 100 | (120 155) 100 | (1914) 100 | (58 591) 100 | (6562) 100 | (263 508) 100 | (2779) 100 | (21 694) 100 | (8178) 100 | (87 620) 100 |
| Missing | (2455) 7.0 | (21 988) 3.8 | (1469) 10.1 | (12 645) 9.5 | (15) 0.8 | (290) 0.5 | (0) 0 | (1) 0 | (30) 1.1 | (420) 1.9 | (941) 10.3 | (8642) 9.0 |
| Social caste | ||||||||||||
| General caste | 12.2 | 11.3 | 10.8 | 10.9 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 14.8 | 12.8 | 37.3 | 38.2 | 7.1 | 5.0 |
| Other backward | 40.0 | 38.5 | 41.7 | 44.1 | 48.5 | 43.8 | 38.3 | 35.0 | 17.4 | 11.5 | 43.4 | 43.5 |
| Scheduled caste | 29.1 | 22.1 | 34.7 | 34.1 | 14.3 | 14.7 | 11.2 | 11.1 | 37.2 | 42.8 | 32.2 | 34.2 |
| Scheduled tribe | 18.7 | 28.2 | 12.8 | 10.9 | 33.6 | 38.1 | 35.8 | 41.2 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 17.3 | 17.3 |
| Total non-missing | (32 800) 100 | (535 328) 100 | (14 400) 100 | (131 924) 100 | (652) 100 | (27 427) 100 | (6551) 100 | (263 204) 100 | (2201) 100 | (17 148) 100 | (8996) 100 | (95 625) 100 |
| DK/missing | (2193) 6.3 | (38 238) 6.7 | (174) 1.2 | (876) 0.7 | (1277) 66.2 | (31 454) 53.4 | (11) 0.2 | (305) 0.1 | (608) 21.6 | (4966) 22.5 | (123) 1.3 | (637) 0.7 |
| Economic class | ||||||||||||
| BPL | 87.7 | 75.9 | 99.7 | 99.6 | 96.7 | 97.0 | 54.2 | 55.9 | 62.7 | 67.0 | 99.5 | 99.5 |
| Others | 12.3 | 24.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 45.7 | 44.1 | 37.3 | 33.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Total non-missing | (32 296) 100 | (511 447) 100 | (14 357) 100 | (131 391) 100 | (61) 100 | (2824) 100 | (6540) 100 | (262 991) 100 | (2395) 100 | (19 041) 100 | (8943) 100 | (95 200) 100 |
| DK/missing | (2697) 7.7 | (62 119) 10.8 | (217) 1.5 | (1409) 1.1 | (1868) 96.8 | (56 057) 95.2 | (22) 0.3 | (518) 0.2 | (414) 14.7 | (3073) 13.9 | (176) 1.9 | (1062) 1.1 |
| Area | ||||||||||||
| Rural/tribal | 68.7 | 85.6 | 67.4 | 79.5 | 92.1 | 92.7 | 62.8 | 89.3 | 75.9 | 95.2 | 67.6 | 77.8 |
| Urban | 31.3 | 14.4 | 32.6 | 20.5 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 37.2 | 10.7 | 24.1 | 4.8 | 32.4 | 22.2 |
| Total non-missing | (34 910) 100 | (570 042) 100 | (14 555) 100 | (132 510) 100 | (1929) 100 | (58 881) 100 | (6562) 100 | (263 509) 100 | (2770) 100 | (18 952) 100 | (9094) 100 | (96 190) 100 |
| Missing | (78) 0.2 | (3524) 0.6 | (19) 0.1 | (290) 0.2 | (0) 0 | (0) 0 | (0) 0 | (0) 0 | (39) 1.4 | (3162) 14.3 | (25) 0.3 | (72) 0.1 |
| Died before ambulance reached | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.36 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| Delivery en route | ||||||||||||
| At pick-up site | 0.3 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| In ambulance | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
BPL, below the poverty line; IFT,iInterfacility transfer.