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Table 1 Unstandardized and indirectly standardized mean of Illnesses (2008)

From: Socioeconomic-related health inequality in South Africa: evidence from General Household Surveys

 

Q1(poorest)

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5(richest)

Flu/ART

0.0638 (0.0637)

0.0772 (0.0764)

0.0726 (0.0724)

0.0870 (0.0852)

0.0846 (0.0813)

Diarrhoea

0.0097 (0.0092)

0.0082 (0.0078)

0.0078 (0.0073)

0.0036 (0.0036)

0.0032 (0.0029)

Trauma

0.0028 (0.0032)

0.0037 (0.0039)

0.0032 (0.0034)

0.0030 (0.0031)

0.0047 (0.0041)

TB

0.0123 (0.0123)

0.0100 (0.0098)

0.0064 (0.0062)

0.0053 (0.0047)

0.0017 (0.0002)

Drug abuse

0.0007 (0.0008)

0.0012 (0.0012)

0.0007 (0.0007)

0.0004 (0.0004)

0.0008 (0.0006)

Depression

0.0035 (0.0032)

0.0039 (0.0037)

0.0037 (0.0033)

0.0038 (0.0032)

0.0035 (0.0020)

Diabetes

0.0064 (0.0070)

0.0054 (0.0063)

0.0063 (0.0070)

0.0088 (0.0091)

0.0133 (0.0087)

High BP

0.0122 (0.0115)

0.0150 (0.0144)

0.0161 (0.0156)

0.0164 (0.0156)

0.0200 (0.0073)

HIV

0.0029 (0.0030)

0.0045 (0.0045)

0.0035 (0.0030)

0.0017 (0.0015)

0.0014 (0.0011)

STDs

0.0004 (0.0004)

0.0009 (0.0008)

0.0004 (0.0004)

0.0004 (0.0003)

0.0006 (0.0005)

  1. Means of indirectly standardized variables are contained in parenthesis.