Prevalence and potential determinants of chronic disease among elderly in India: Rural-urban perspectives

Arup Jana; Aparajita Chattopadhyay

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264937

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Prevalence and potential determinants of chronic disease among elderly in India: Rural-urban perspectives

Arup Jana ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: arupjana0000@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Population & Development, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5377-4614

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Aparajita Chattopadhyay

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population & Development, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Prevalence and potential determinants of chronic disease among elderly in India: Rural-urban perspectives

Arup Jana,
Aparajita Chattopadhyay

Published: March 11, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264937

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The total sample cases are mismatched as per 75th round of NSSO

Posted by sadafdpsjsr on 26 Jul 2022 at 10:12 GMT

Dear authors,

The paper is very interesting. But there is a problem with the sample distribution. As per the 75th round of NSSO, the elderly sample is 42762 but your sample is showing much more higher than the record. (https://www.mospi.gov.in/...). Could you please recheck your analysis.?

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The total sample cases are mismatched as per 75th round of NSSO

Posted by sadafdpsjsr on 26 Jul 2022 at 10:12 GMT