Table 2 Percent distribution of households by welfare card and asset poor in states of India, 2015–16
From: Malnutrition and poverty in India: does the use of public distribution system matter?
States | Real Poor (Asset deprived and have welfare card) | Excluded Poor (Asset deprived and do not have welfare card | Privileged Non-Poor (Asset non-deprived and have welfare card | Non-Poor (Asset non-deprived and do not have welfare card | Total Households |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Telangana | 8.68 | 0.90 | 71.91 | 18.51 | 1504 |
Andhra Pradesh | 9.36 | 1.46 | 74.27 | 14.91 | 1901 |
Karnataka | 14.20 | 3.66 | 56.22 | 25.92 | 4672 |
Kerala | 4.22 | 3.66 | 26.21 | 65.91 | 1855 |
Chhattisgarh | 40.66 | 5.37 | 37.07 | 16.90 | 6016 |
Jammu & Kashmir | 9.57 | 7.00 | 28.40 | 55.02 | 5404 |
Punjab | 0.90 | 7.44 | 10.49 | 81.16 | 3667 |
Himachal Pradesh | 3.72 | 7.45 | 19.56 | 69.27 | 1935 |
Uttarakhand | 5.87 | 8.16 | 22.34 | 63.63 | 3728 |
Nagaland | 2.09 | 8.96 | 20.08 | 68.88 | 2721 |
Haryana | 3.81 | 9.73 | 17.88 | 68.57 | 4883 |
Maharashtra | 8.38 | 12.09 | 20.02 | 59.52 | 5882 |
Gujarat | 17.27 | 14.66 | 18.97 | 49.11 | 4777 |
Bihar | 29.61 | 15.07 | 27.44 | 27.87 | 14,612 |
Rajasthan | 7.77 | 15.30 | 13.79 | 63.15 | 10,367 |
Tamil Nadu | 3.47 | 15.83 | 7.85 | 72.85 | 5372 |
Mizoram | 15.44 | 16.34 | 11.10 | 57.13 | 3276 |
West Bengal | 15.14 | 16.73 | 20.04 | 48.09 | 3967 |
Tripura | 10.22 | 17.55 | 21.40 | 50.83 | 1041 |
Madhya Pradesh | 25.60 | 19.41 | 20.69 | 34.30 | 15,054 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 22.72 | 21.35 | 22.17 | 33.76 | 3131 |
Jharkhand | 23.95 | 21.58 | 22.02 | 32.45 | 7669 |
Odisha | 21.53 | 24.01 | 17.22 | 37.23 | 8001 |
Meghalaya | 6.98 | 26.18 | 12.12 | 54.72 | 2744 |
Assam | 21.05 | 26.77 | 18.96 | 33.23 | 7335 |
Uttar Pradesh | 11.13 | 27.49 | 12.19 | 49.18 | 24,981 |
Manipur | 9.66 | 37.29 | 10.03 | 43.02 | 4110 |
India | 15.00 | 16.13 | 23.30 | 45.57 | 164,664 |