Multidimensional poverty and catastrophic health spending in the mountainous regions of Myanmar, Nepal and India

Table 4 Percentage of Population Incurring Catastrophic Health Spending by Multidimensional Poverty and Household Characteristics of Sample Households in India, Nepal and Myanmar, 2011-13

Variable	India			Nepal			Myanmar
	Multidimensionally poor	Multidimensionally non-poor	All	Multidimensionally poor	Multidimensionally non-poor	All	Multidimensionally poor	Multidimensionally non-poor	All
Age of Household Head
Lt31	35.29	47.42	42.77	21.02	24.98	23.49	31.09	19.44	26.21
31-45	46.40	30.97	36.61	15.04	14.16	14.48	25.83	16.69	22.10
46-60	46.85	34.16	38.40	25.01	14.33	18.77	24.70	16.46	21.24
61+	56.70	40.57	45.51	19.44	24.05	21.88	23.95	15.52	20.44
Sex of the Head of the Household
Male	46.97	35.00	39.04	21.51	16.35	17.89	23.99	13.93	20.08
Female	49.98	38.17	42.96	20.23	19.48	20.43	29.77	20.77	25.67
Marital Status of the Head of the Household
Currently married	46.36	34.97	38.79	20.10	18.94	17.92	24.80	16.72	21.56
Otherwise	54.82	38.93	45.72	22.91	16.52	21.06	35.71	18.18	26.96
Educational level of the Head of the Household
Illiterate	51.62	38.57	47.39	21.61	18.02	20.41	22.49	12.44	20.37
Literate formal/less than class 5	43.95	41.26	42.98	17.96	14.39	16.21	29.28	10.82	24.10
Class 5-7	46.93	40.86	41.86	26.35	23.16	23.36	34.35	24.46	27.87
Class 8-10	44.75	35.38	36.48	23.96	11.35	11.96	45.84	19.16	25.49
11+ years/professional	17.40	26.56	26.00	11.27	16.76	16.60	15.17	10.90	11.45
Consumption Quintile
Poorest	52.42	58.49	54.10	34.46	37.80	35.37	45.18	40.14	44.47
Poorer	52.21	44.82	47.44	18.43	21.07	20.00	29.31	31.61	30.08
Middle	47.71	41.65	43.26	22.93	15.93	18.58	15.67	15.06	15.43
Richer	40.61	34.44	36.02	10.25	16.95	14.69	13.52	12.57	12.98
Richest	36.51	18.75	22.78	10.78	9.93	10.19	7.91	9.27	8.78
Place of Residence
Rural	59.45	23.89	25.74	21.37	18.65	19.85	23.22	16.77	18.17
Urban	47.80	37.63	41.24	6.84	8.41	8.11	26.37	17.07	23.17
Number of Households	854	1793	2647	960	1350	2310	2514	1776	4290

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