From: Households forgoing healthcare as a measure of financial risk protection: an application to Liberia
# | Variable | Definition | Related Questions/ Database items | Connection with other measures: | Calculation | Source |
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1 | OOP Health Expenditure | All OOP health expenditure in last 12 months | Q10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 22 (section D) | CHE numerator | Sum of Q10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 22 | [15] |
2 | Total Consumption Expenditure | Food and non-food consumption per household in last 12 months | Worksheet HH consumption, item hhtexp | CHE denominator | No calculation, taken directly from database | |
3 | Non-food consumption expenditure | Non-food consumption per household in last 12 months | Worksheet HH consumption, item nfdtexp | CHE denominator | No calculation, taken directly from database | |
4 | Capacity to pay | Same as non-food consumption expenditure (#3) | ||||
5 | CHE threshold | Threshold beyond which an OOP health expenditure is considered a CHE | n/a | Arbitrary values taken from literature | ||
6 | CHE Incidence | Households incurring CHE, out of total households | n/a | OOP health expenditure (numerator), Consumption expenditure (denominator) and threshold | 1 if #1 divided by #2 or #3 is beyond #5 0 otherwise | |
7 | CHE Intensity | Average OOP health expenditure value beyond CHE threshold (for households incurring CHE) | n/a | OOP health expenditure (numerator), Consumption expenditure (denominator) and threshold | If #6 is 1: #1 divided by #2 or #3 minus #5 0 otherwise | |
8 | Impoverishment | Households incurring CHE which were pushed below poverty line by CHE | n/a | CHE | 1 if total expenditure minus OOP health expenditure is inferior to household’s poverty line, 0 otherwise | |
9 | Poverty line | Consumption expenditure per household assumed to be a minimum living standard (food/non-food) | n/a | Impoverishment | Sum of adult equivalents in household, times poverty line per adult equivalent (L$65438) | [15] |