Concern is fueling readiness, and momentum builds on itself. Rather than reading concern, empowerment, and action as three separate stats, the Readiness Index combines them into a single 0–100 score — comparable across states, genders, ages, and occupations.
Three inputs, each normalized to a 0–100 scale, averaged with equal weight. Access and emotional-wellbeing measures deliberately sit outside the score — they're circumstantial (whether a park exists nearby), not a trait of the respondent, so folding them in would blur what "readiness" actually measures.
Note: the Action input here uses the strict definition (took at least one action, excluding the self-contradictory "never + also selected an action" responses) rather than the headline 88% figure, since it's the cleaner basis for a comparative score. See the methodology notes for what that changes.
The 20 states with a sample large enough to report individually. The remaining 14 states/UTs, together just 3.4% of the weighted sample, are grouped into a single caveated figure below rather than reported one by one.
The spread is narrow — 7 points separate the highest (West Bengal, 88.0) from the lowest reportable state (Kerala, 81.0). Readiness looks less like a regional divide and more like a near-national baseline, with action rates driving most of the state-to-state movement more than concern or empowerment do.
Men score higher overall, but the composite score hides an interesting reversal underneath it: women score higher on concern (83.4 vs 79.7) and roughly equal on empowerment. The entire gap is driven by the action component — the same structural barriers (time, safety, mobility) that show up throughout this survey.
Readiness climbs steadily with life stage up through postgraduate study and early self-employment, then eases slightly for those still in school — consistent with the age pattern seen throughout this survey, where concern itself rises on the way into adulthood.
The Readiness Index describes where young India stands today. It is not yet a trend line — that requires a second fielding wave on the same instrument, which doesn't exist yet.
States making up less than roughly 1% of the weighted sample each (14 of 34) are grouped into a single "other states & UTs" figure rather than shown individually, following the same suppression discipline used across TREND's public data products.
Unlike the 88% headline figure on the overview page, the Action input to this score excludes the ~3.8% of respondents who gave a self-contradictory answer (ticking "never" alongside a real action). That's why the national Action input reads 91.2%, not 88%.
Concern, empowerment, and action are weighted equally here. A buyer or partner using this index for a specific purpose (e.g. weighting action more heavily for a behaviour-change program) would reasonably reweight it.