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Table 3 Cumulative shares of illnesses in South Africa (2008)

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

Quintiles of SES

Flu/ART

Diarrhoea

Trauma

TB

Drug abuse

Depressi on

Diabetes

High BP

HIV

STDs

Poorest 20%

17.3%

30.7%

18.8%

37.1%

21.8%

21.2%

19.0%

17.8%

23.4%

17.0%

Poorest 40%

37.0%

55.1%

40.8%

64.9%

54.6%

44.0%

35.1%

39.0%

56.6%

51.0%

Poorest 60%

56.3%

78.9%

60.8%

83.3%

74.5%

65.4%

53.6%

62.8%

79.4%

67.7%

Poorest 80%

84.0%

93.0%

82.5%

100.0%

88.1%

90.3%

83.0%

91.8%

93.8%

83.7%

Standardized concentration index

0.0455** (0.0137)

-0.2248** (0.0306)

-0.0183 (0.0632)

-0.3344** (0.0311)

-0.1541 (0.1029)

-0.0662* (0.0375)

0.0123 (0.0439)

-0.0647** (0.0181)

-0.1976** (0.0421)

-0.1152 (0.1055)

  1. Note: These are standardized for age-sex variations. Concentration indices are based on Wagstaff's normalization
  2. Robust standard errors in parentheses
  3. **, * significant at 1%, and 10% levels respectively