Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the actively detected survey cases and passively detected NTP cases

Characteristics	All		Survey cases		NTP cases		p Value
Characteristics	N (273)	Per cent	n (33)	Per cent	n (240)	Per cent	p Value
Age in years
15–34	120	43.9	8	24.2	112	46.6	0.028
35–54	87	31.9	12	36.6	75	31.2
55+	66	25.0	13	39.9	53	22.1
Sex
Male	176	64.5	24	72.7	152	63.3	0.290
Female	97	35.5	9	27.7	88	36.7
Residence
Rural	140	51.3	20	60.6	120	50.0	0.253
Urban	133	48.7	13	39.4	120	50.0
Education
0	71	26.0	15	45.5	55	23.0	0.039
1–5	71	26.0	8	24.2	65	27.1
6–10	68	24.9	6	18.2	62	25.8
10+	63	23.1	4	12.1	58	24.2
Occupation
Agriculture based	37	13.6	4	12.1	33	13.8	0.003
Daily wagers	89	22.3	14	42.4	75	31.3
Sales and services	115	28.2	6	18.2	109	45.4
Others	32	35.9	9	27.3	23	9.6
Asset quartiles
1st (lowest)	17	6.2	12	36.4	5	2.0	0.000
2nd	111	40.6	13	39.4	98	41.0
3rd	113	41.4	5	15.1	108	45.0
4th	32	11.8	3	9.1	29	12.0
Presence of cough
Yes	226	82.8	29	87.8	197	82.1	0.408
No	47	17.2	4	12.2	43	17.9
Duration of cough
Less than 14 days	51	18.7	6	18.2	45	18.2	0.937
≥15 days	222	81.3	27	81.8	195	81.8
Number of symptoms
≤2	44	16.1	4	12.1	40	16.7	0.556
3–4	79	29.0	8	24.2	71	29.6
5+	150	54.9	21	63.7	129	53.8