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Table 2 Mean Household Characteristics

From: Changes in catastrophic health expenditure in post-conflict Sierra Leone: an Oaxaca-blinder decomposition analysis

 

2003

2011

Difference±

Full Sample

Health expenditure share of total expenditure > 10% (CHE)

0.501

0.32

−0.181***

0.41

Socioeconomic inequality in CHE ¥

0.060

0.068***

0.008

0.0343

Household Characteristics

 Below median total expenditure

0.555

0.418

−0.137***

0.486

 Total expenditure /capita (US$)

39.87

97.63

57.76**

68.88

 Food expenditure/capita (US$)

15.93

45.19

29.26***

30.63

 Non-food expenditure/capita (US$)

16.74

46.02

29.28

31.45

 Health expenditure (US$)

19.92

15.03

−4.89

17.46

 Food share of total expenditure

16.64

10.07

−6.56***

13.34

 Health share of total expenditure

48.27

63.49

15.22***

55.91

 Household size

5.576

5.378

−0.198†

5.477

 Log household size

1.588

1.561

−0.027

1.574

 Children under 5 years

0.142

0.106

−0.036***

0.124

 Adults over 65 years

0.045

0.039

−0.005

0.042

 Unemployed adults

0.305

0.377

0.072***

0.3411

 Ill health

0.399

0.191

−0.208***

0.295

Household location

 Rural

0.607

0.67

0.063***

0.639

 Western region

0.188

0.15

−0.038**

0.169

 Eastern region

0.239

0.284

0.045***

0.261

 Northern region

0.291

0.418

0.127***

0.355

 Southern region

0.283

0.148

−0.135***

0.215

Health facility

 Formal Public

0.090

0.095

0.005

0.092

 Formal NGO & Missionary

0.012

0.004

−0.008***

0.008

 Formal Private

0.064

0.022

−0.042***

0.043

 Informal Private

0.010

0.016

0.006**

0.013

 Public Hospital

0.006

0.011

0.005***

0.008

 Private Hospital

0.001

0.002

0.001

0.002

Head of Household Characteristics

 Married

0.768

0.794

0.026

0.781

 Age (years)

46.67

44.58

−2.09***

45.62

 Male

0.794

0.742

−0.052***

0.768

 Muslim

0.718

0.779

0.061***

0.749

 No education

0.825

0.838

0.013

0.832

 Observations

1886

2800

 

4686

  1. † p < 0.1, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01, ± estimated using student’s T-test, ¥this is estimated as the concentration index