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Table 1 Indicators of branch penetration and rural indebtedness

From: Credit off-take from formal financial institutions in rural India: quantile regression results

State

Average population per rural financial institution branch as of March 2009#

Incidence of indebtedness of rural households (in %) as of June 2002$

Institutional

Non-institutional

All

Chhattisgarh

10410

14.4

6.7

19.8

Maharashtra

2688

22.8

7.2

27.5

West Bengal

6095

12.1

11.0

21.8

Andhra Pradesh

11784

14.9

32.9

42.3

Tamil Nadu

5976

13.9

21.3

31.3

Gujarat

3759

14.7

15.8

28.1

All of India

6554

13.4

15.5

26.5

  1. #Authors' own calculationb.
  2. $Household indebtedness in India as of 06.30.02 (National Sample Survey Organisation [2005]).