Wealth-based disparities in the prevalence of short birth interval in India: insights from NFHS-5

Table 2 State-wise Erreygers Normalized Concentration Index, NFHS-5, 2019-21

States	Number of observations	ECI	Standard error	p-value
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	189	-0.333	0.071	< 0.001
Gujarat	4540	-0.282	0.017	< 0.001
Punjab	2616	-0.278	0.021	< 0.001
Manipur	1654	-0.275	0.025	< 0.001
Goa	96	-0.252	0.105	0.018
Maharashtra	4291	-0.226	0.017	< 0.001
DDDNH	369	-0.218	0.059	< 0.001
Madhya Pradesh	7658	-0.206	0.013	< 0.001
Uttarakhand	1824	-0.200	0.026	< 0.001
Delhi	1382	-0.194	0.030	< 0.001
Himachal Pradesh	1241	-0.189	0.032	< 0.001
Ladakh	194	-0.185	0.073	0.012
West Bengal	1874	-0.179	0.024	< 0.001
Assam	3151	-0.177	0.016	< 0.001
Odisha	4231	-0.177	0.015	< 0.001
Tamil Nadu	3062	-0.176	0.020	< 0.001
Karnataka	3811	-0.171	0.018	< 0.001
Haryana	3345	-0.166	0.020	< 0.001
Rajasthan	6826	-0.16	0.014	< 0.001
Meghalaya	3266	-0.149	0.020	< 0.001
Tripura	768	-0.142	0.032	< 0.001
Chandigarh	99	-0.136	0.111	0.223
Arunachal Pradesh	2705	-0.121	0.021	< 0.001
Nagaland	1485	-0.092	0.030	0.002
Jammu & Kashmir	2398	-0.077	0.023	0.001
Sikkim	270	-0.070	0.054	0.201
Uttar Pradesh	18,263	-0.069	0.009	< 0.001
Telangana	3564	-0.046	0.019	0.017
Mizoram	1343	-0.045	0.031	0.141
Bihar	10,379	-0.044	0.011	< 0.001
Jharkhand	5061	-0.038	0.016	0.020
Kerala	1349	-0.012	0.026	0.643
Andhra Pradesh	1412	-0.007	0.030	0.820
Lakshadweep	123	0.000	0.083	0.998
Chhattisgarh	4222	0.020	0.018	0.268
Puducherry	378	0.022	0.059	0.715
India	109,439	-0.133	0.003	< 0.001

Note: DDDNH: Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; ECI: Erreygers Normalised Concentration Index

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