Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of categorical and continuous variables
| Variables | Definition and categories | Frequency (%) n=65,932 | Weighted percentage (%) | |
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| Age groups (children) | Presence of at least one child (aged 5 years and less) in the household | 31,361 (47.57%) | 33 | |
| Age groups (elderly) | Presence of at least one elderly person (aged 60 years and above in the household) | 20,234 (30.69%) | 26.87 | |
| Marital status | Presence of someone divorced in the household | 15,649 (23.74%) | 22.44 | |
| Female education | Presence of at least one secondary educated female member in the household | 27,723 (42.05%) | 33.94 | |
| Location of the household | Rural | 36,480 (55.33%) | 67.44 | |
| Urban | 29,452 (44.67%) | 32.56 | ||
| Socioeconomic status of household | Lowest income quintile | 13,607 (20.64%) | 30.04 | |
| Second lowest income quintile | 12,768 (19.37%) | 21.77 | ||
| Third income quintile | 13,825 (20.97%) | 20.59 | ||
| Fourth income quintile | 12,726 (19.30%) | 15.59 | ||
| Highest fifth income quintile | 13,006 (19.73%) | 12.01 | ||
| Drinking water | Safe water | 64,376 (97.64%) | 98.75 | |
| Unsafe water | 1556 (2.36%) | 1.25 | ||
| Household cooking fuel | Unclean fuels | 35,044 (53.15%) | 5.97 | |
| Clean fuels | 30,274 (45.92%) | 38.78 | ||
| No cooking arrangement | 614 (0.93%) | 1.51 | ||
| Drainage type | Open (kutcha and pucca) | 27,670 (41.97%) | 38.49 | |
| Covered (pucca and underground) | 18,764 (28.46%) | 26.95 | ||
| No drainage | 19,498 (29.57%) | 34.56 | ||
| Latrine type | Service and pit latrine | 13,269 (20.13%) | 17.16 | |
| Septic tank/flush system | 31,537 (47.83%) | 40.76 | ||
| No latrine and others | 21,126 (32.04%) | 42.07 | ||
| Household size | Small household (1-4 members) | 29,055 (44.07%) | 54.08 | |
| Medium household (5-8 members) | 31,461 (47.72%) | 40.94 | ||
| Large household (9 and more) | 5416 (8.21%) | 4.98 | ||
| Religion of the household | Hinduism | 50,662 (76.84%) | 82.35 | |
| Islam | 8987 (13.63%) | 12.59 | ||
| Christianity | 3924 (5.95%) | 2.34 | ||
| Other religions | 2359 (3.58%) | 2.72 | ||
| Social group of the household | Scheduled tribes | 8382 (12.71%) | 9.14 | |
| Scheduled castes | 11,058 (16.77%) | 18.69 | ||
| Other backward classes | 25,842 (39.19%) | 43.26 | ||
| Others | 20,650 (31.32%) | 28.91 | ||
| Level of care of hospitalization | If at least one member in the household used a private healthcare facility for hospitalization | 24,060 (36.49%) | 9.98 | |
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| Variables | Definition | Mean | Standard error | 95% Confidence interval |
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| Sex | Proportion of female members in each household | 0.4821 | 0.0018 | 0.4786-0.4857 |
| Health Insurance coverage | Proportion of members enrolled in health insurance in each household | 0.1684 | 0.0032 | 0.1620-0.1748 |
| Chronic illness | Proportion of members suffering from chronic illness in each household | 0.0637 | 0.0014 | 0.0608-0.0665 |
| Hospitalization | Proportion members hospitalized in each household | 0.0456 | 0.0006 | 0.0443-0.0468 |
| Duration of hospitalization | Total duration of hospitalization of all members in each household | 1.2972 | 0.02474 | 1.2487-1.3457 |
| Duration of ailment | Total duration of ailment of all members in each household | 395.2532 | 12.6161 | 370.5255-419.9809 |
| Monthly consumption expenditure | Total consumption expenditure of all members in each household per month | 37,233.3 | 304.3445 | 36,636.78-37,829.81 |
| Monthly inpatient OOP health expenditure | Total inpatient OOP health expenditures of all members in each household per month | 287.4692 | 11.57392 | 264.7844-310.1541 |
| Monthly outpatient OOP health expenditure | Total outpatient OOP health expenditures of all members in each household per month | 115.963 | 8.648854 | 99.0112-132.9147 |
| Total monthly OOP health expenditure | Total OOP health expenditures of all members in each household per month | 403.4322 | 14.48582 | 375.04-431.8244 |