Social class related inequalities in household health expenditure and economic burden: evidence from Kerala, south India

Table 4 Households with high health expenditure and their distribution across health care need categories

	Health expenditure cut-off (Rs)	Outlier households (%)	Distribution of outlier households by levels of households' health care need (%) [low, high, very high]
K = 0.5
Paniya	70.5	18.2	[37, 44, 19]
Other ST/SC	555	14.1	[8, 85, 8]
OBC	866.5	15.8	[4, 83, 13]
FC	1508.5	14.0	[18, 46, 36]
All castes	940	15.6	[11, 54, 34]
K = 1
Paniya	94	14.9	[32, 50, 18]
Other ST/SC	718	6.5	[17, 83, 0]
OBC	1105	10.3	[7, 80, 13]
FC	1928	7.6	[8, 50, 42]
All castes	1220	10.1	[11, 58, 31]
K = 1.5
Paniya	117.5	12.8	[37, 42, 21]
Other ST/SC	881	2.2	[0, 100, 0]
OBC	1343.5	7.5	[0, 91, 9]
FC	2347.5	5.1	[0, 63, 37]
All castes	1500	7.5	[12, 61, 27]

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