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Table 1 Background characteristics of the two study districts and Madhya Pradesh

From: ‘The money is important but all women anyway go to hospital for childbirth nowadays’ - a qualitative exploration of why women participate in a conditional cash transfer program to promote institutional deliveries in Madhya Pradesh, India

 

District #1

District #2

Madhya Pradesh

Total Population (million) [19]

2

1.1

72

Rural Population (%) [19]

60

79

72

Female literacy (%) [19]

64

65

68

Human Development Index (HDI) [59]

0.626

0.564

0.375

Crude Birth Rate [21]

24

24

25

Institutional delivery (%) [21]

85

60

83

MMR [21]

176

361

227