Table 3 Characteristics of households (HH) with chronic conditions and bivariate associations with the outcome variables by country, 2010

 Total number of HH

957

869

935

 Number (%) of HH reporting one or more chronic diseases

450

267

110

 Number of persons with a chronic disease per HH [mean(SE)]

1.2 (0.5)

1.2 (0.5)

1.1 (0.5)

 HH located less than 30 min for public health facility (%)

71.3*^{, ◊◊}

71.0

75.6

 HH located less than 30 min for private health facility (%)

50.1^◊◊

52.8^**,◊◊◊

47.3

 HH located in urban region (%)

62.9***

51.4

58.9**^,◊◊◊

 HH with fewer than 3 persons per room (%) (overcrowding)

84.6**

90.7

96.6

 Economic level

*

**^,◊◊

**^,◊◊◊

  A (wealthy)

25.5

29.9

16.7

  B (middle)

44.7

47.1

53.4

  C (poor)

29.8

23.0

29.9

 HH head is female (%)

61.1**

32.8

35.4

 HH head can read and write in Spanish (%)

79.7^◊◊

75.5

85.3

 Age of the head of household [mean (SE)]

52.4 (15)

54.7 (15)

51.2 (15)

 HH head not an ethnic minority (%)

84.9

84.9^◊◊

93.6^◊◊

 HH head educational level

**

***^,◊

  None or less than primary school (%)

53.4

57.0

37.4

  Primary school (%)

30.9

24.1

27.7

  Secondary school and more (%)

15.7

18.9

34.9

 Head of the household is employed (%)

25.9

27.1

25.0^◊◊

 Head of the household is retired (%)

12.4***^,◊◊

13.5

10.3^◊

 HH health insurance (%)

21.8*

14.8

22.4***^,◊◊

 HH health insurance that cover all medicines (%)

8.6^◊◊

8.6

14.3^◊◊

 Geographic location of public health facility is good (%)

61.4***^,◊◊

66.1

60.6^◊◊

 Working time of public health facility is good (%)

57.8

69.9

64.0

 Working time of the pharmacy at public health facility is good (%)

56.2

68.9

69.2

 Quality of the health care at public health facility is good (%)

51.5***

64.5

45.1*

 Quality of the medicines at public health facility is good (%)

61.1*

68.1

56.6