Targeting accuracy and impact of a community-identified waiver card scheme for primary care user fees in Afghanistan

Table 3 Marginal effects from probit model of care-seeking

	Probit Model
	CARE-SEEKING
	dy/dx	SE	p-value
Card	0.0306	0.0127	0.016 ++
Prop. women repro. Age	0.1426	0.0811	0.079 +
Prop. kids <5	-0.0061	0.0485	0.900
Family size >9 members	-0.0018	0.0140	0.896
Women's careseeking autonomy	0.0245	0.0108	0.023 ++
Prop. sick HH members last 30 days	-0.0689	0.0311	0.027--
Female-headed household	0.0190	0.0270	0.482
More than 6 years education, head of HH	0.0285	0.0155	0.066 +
Wealth	0.0039	0.0044	0.373
1/Wealth²	0.0002	0.0001	0.041 ++
Province (reference = Kapisa)
Parwan	0.0388	0.0161	0.016 ++
Wardak	0.0385	0.0138	0.005 +++
Samangan	0.0270	0.0184	0.143
Balkh	-0.0485	0.0350	0.165
Badghis	0.0127	0.0216	0.557
Farah	-0.0068	0.0312	0.827
Nimruz	0.0115	0.0235	0.624
Sari-Pol	0.0672	0.0198	0.001 +++
Panjshir	0.0614	0.0184	0.001 +++
In catchment of hospital (ref. = catchment clinic)	0.0009	0.0136	0.947
Avg. travel time, hours	-0.0152	0.0083	0.067 -
Age < 5 years	0.0297	0.0127	0.020 ++
Severe illness (vs. mild/moderate)	0.0332	0.0133	0.012 ++
Female	-0.0094	0.0103	0.363
N	1486

+ = p < 0.10; ++ = p < 0.05; +++ = p < 0.01; same meaning for negatively associated variables.
Standard errors adjusted for cluster sampling.

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