INDICATORS OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES)
Hose hold monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) quintile, education, and social group of the cancer patient are the three SES indicators on which mainly focused. Indian education system categorized the patients as illiterate (no formal schooling), primary education or below (1-5 years), middle school or below (6-10years), secondary education (11-12 years ) and higher education (graduate school and above ). Social groups were divided as scheduled tribes (ST), scheduled castes (SC), other backward classes, and other castes. SC and ST groups were economically, socially, and geographically deprived groups in India when compared to other castes which are having better SES.[1]