An analysis of predictors and wealth-based inequality in internet use among women in India: aiming for better digital health outcomes

Table 3 Decomposition of the inequalities in the internet use among women in India

Background Variable	Elasticity	Concentration Index	Absolute Contribution	% Contribution	Total
Age
15–19	Ref
20–29	0.0254	0.0123	0.0003	0.0700
30–39	−0.0356	0.0148	−0.0005	− 0.1186
40–49	−0.1261	0.0288	−0.0036	− 0.8166	− 0.87
Place of Residence
Urban	Ref
Rural	−0.2255	− 0.4564	0.1029	23.1607	23.16
Education
No education	Ref
Primary	0.0345	−0.0880	− 0.0030	− 0.6827
Secondary	0.4686	0.1219	0.0571	12.8497
Higher	0.2699	0.2638	0.0712	16.0215	28.19
Marital Status
Never in union	Ref
Married	−0.1589	−0.0098	0.0016	0.3488
Widowed	−0.0077	−0.0102	0.0001	0.0178
Divorced	0.0001	0.0005	0.0000	0.0000
Separated	−0.0011	−0.0042	0.0000	0.0011	0.37
Religion
Hindu	Ref
Muslim	−0.0040	0.0248	−0.0001	−0.0224
Christian	0.0295	−0.0399	−0.0012	− 0.2651
Sikh	0.0119	0.0546	0.0006	0.1460
Other	0.0123	−0.0150	−0.0002	− 0.0416	− 0.18
Social group/ Caste
Scheduled Caste	Ref
Scheduled Tribe	0.0164	−0.2735	−0.0045	−1.0062
OBC	0.0009	0.0947	0.0001	0.0182
Other/General	0.0390	0.2376	0.0093	2.0855	1.10
Working Status
Not working	Ref
Working	0.0131	−0.1329	−0.0017	−0.3919	−0.39
Wealth Index
Poorest	Ref
Poorer	0.0646	−0.2550	−0.0165	−3.7051
Middle	0.1022	0.0213	0.0022	0.4895
Richer	0.1378	0.2845	0.0392	8.8200
Richest	0.1814	0.4916	0.0892	20.0634	25.67
*Total*					*77.04*
*Residuals*					*22.96*
Index	Erreygers Normalized Concentration Index
No. of obs.	108,785
Index value	0.4444
Std. error	0.0030
p-value	<0.001

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