Factors Associated with Vitamin D Deficiency and Their Relative Importance among Indian Adolescents: An Application of Dominance Analysis

Table 2

Distribution of sample population with respect to demographic and socioeconomic categories and prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in respective categories.

	n	%	Vitamin D deficiency (%)
Age
10–14	7,022	53.75	26.33
15–19	6,043	46.25	23.34
Sex
Male	6,715	51.4	14.82
Female	6,350	48.6	35.47
Place of residence
Rural	7,430	56.87	21.94
Urban	5,635	43.13	35.35
Religion
Hindu	9,490	72.64	23.23
Muslim	1,466	11.22	31.31
Christian	1,323	10.13	17.39
Sikh	326	2.5	68.91
Others	460	3.52	24.2
Caste
SC	2,536	20.93	27.6
ST	2,367	19.53	15.13
OBC	4,247	35.05	23.6
General	2,967	24.49	30.28
Wealth index
Poorest	1,047	8.01	19.82
Poor	1,707	13.07	18.92
Middle	2,613	20	21.12
Rich	3,505	26.83	29.49
Richest	4,193	32.09	35.91
Region
North	2,870	21.97	43.93
Central	1,329	10.17	19.98
East	2,333	17.86	27.25
West	1,350	10.33	26.23
South	2,078	15.91	14.57
North-east	3,105	23.77	13.95