Having learnt a technical skill or trade and household bicycle ownership were binary variables (0 = no, 1 = yes).
Region, marital status, poverty status, having learnt a technical skill, owning bicycles, and smoking had no association with NCDs among all older people.
Socio-economic factors included education level, religion, household poverty status, household major source of earnings, having learnt a technical skill, ownership of bicycle.
There were no significant differences between men and women by poverty status (p = 0.48) and having learnt a technical skill or trade (p = 0.26).
However, region, marital status, having learnt a technical skill, and smoking history had no significant association with NCDs among all older people.
However, self-reported ill health among men did not vary significantly by region (p = 0.662), residence (p = 0.996), source of earnings (p = 0.146), having learnt a technical skill (p = 0.353), education and poverty status.
Age group, region, household headship, marital status, wealth status, source of earnings, having learnt a technical skill, illness in 30 days, and smoking were not significantly associated with NCDs among older men.
Among older women, reporting of NCDs was associated with age group (p=0.01), region (p<0.01), relationship to household head (p<0.01), religion (p<0.01), poverty status (p=0.01), source of earnings (p=0.01), having learnt a technical skill (p<0.01), being sick in the past 30 days (p<0.01), and being disabled (p<0.01).
Long back, when BT invested into Bharti, Mittal allowed it to bring in its chief financial officer and chief technical officer and in the process learnt enormously about processes and scaling up.
There were no side tracks and there was no unnecessary extra information or technical options added to the necessary information to be learnt about the selected difficulties in pronunciation.
