Poverty identification for a pro-poor health insurance scheme in Tanzania: reliability and multi-level stakeholder perceptions

Table 2 Households Demographic Characteristics

Variable	All (N = 2,623)
Characteristics of the Household head	n	%
Married	912	34.8
Gender is male	2,297	87.6
Religion
Catholic	871	33.2
Other Christians	1,427	54.4
Muslim	251	9.57
Other	74	2.8
Education
No school	264	10.1
Some primary education	189	7.2
Completed primary education/Some secondary education	2,054	78.3
Secondary education and above	114	4.4
Occupation
Formal employment	82	3.1
Not working	102	3.9
Subsistence farmer	2,247	85.7
Self employed/small business	189	7.2
Insured by the CHF	2,623	2.9
	n	Mean [s.d]
Number of children under 5 in the household	2,623	2.85 [1.70]
Number of elderly over 65 in the household	2,623	0.05 [0.24]
Household size	2,623	4.89 [1.64]
Average age of household head	2,569	36.76 [11.64]
Wealth measures
NHIF Scorecard – Index value	2,623	15.99 [2.23]
Monthly consumption expenditure in TZS	2,623	98,070.74 [85551.55]
Wealth index	2,623	−2.58e⁻⁰⁹ [2.55]

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