Reconciling research and implementation in micro health insurance experiments in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Table 1 Summary Statistics of Families of SHG Members by Trial Sites

	Trial 1 - Pratapgarh	Trial 2 - Kanpur Dehat	Trial 3 - Vaishali
State	Uttar Pradesh	Uttar Pradesh	Bihar
Implementing Partner	BAIF	Shramik Bharti	Nidan
No. Villages	15	42	34
Trial Population*	8933	7105	7838
No. SHG Members	1557	1226	1459
Mean Annual Consumption per capita Rs (Standard Deviation)	16233 (15131)	24934 (30298)	18231 (21772)
Mean Annual Consumption per capita $US (Standard Deviation)**	358 (334)	551 (669)	403 (481)
Mean Consumption, per capita per annum, $PPP (Standard Deviation)***	991 (924)	1523 (1850)	1113 (1329)
Mean Daily Consumption per capita, $PPP (Standard Deviation)	2.72 (2.53)	4.17 (5.07)	3.05 (3.64)
% of HHs below International Absolute Poverty Line (PPP "tabcaption".25 at 2005 prices)	26	18	23
% Adult Males in Agriculture	53	70	59
% Adult Females at Home	65	70	67
% First Visits to Unqualified Providers	55	67	50

* Estimate - Number of SHG members is known, but not all SHG members answered a HH survey, so size of all households is not known. Estimate = [(No. of SHG members who did not answer HH survey) × (average HH size at site)] + [No. people in HHs of SHG members who answered HH survey]
** Calculated at USD/Rupee midrate of 1/45.29, Dec 3 2010
*** Calculated at World Bank PPP conversion factor for 2009 of 0.3616

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