Table 3.

General characteristics of apothecaries and pharmacies users according to language.

Characteristics	Quechua/Others n = 293			Spanish n = 11,053			p-valuea
	n	%	95 % CI	n	%	95 % CI
Out-of-pocket expense in medicines (USD)							0,006
Mean (95 % CI)	4.99	4.27–5.72		5.63	5.41–5.86
Sex							0.618
Women	169	58.54	55.15–61.84	6326	57.65	56.76–58.54
Men	124	41.46	38.16–44.85	4727	42.35	41.46–43.24
Age (years)							<0.001
18 to 39	111	39.70	35.46–44.10	6096	54.02	53.05–54.98
40 to 59	114	35.55	31.60–39.71	3635	33.31	32.37–34.26
60 or more	68	24.75	21.22–28.65	1322	12.67	12.04–13.33
Higher education							<0.001
No	272	91.49	88.37–93.83	5768	51.82	50.44–53.20
Yes	21	8.51	6.17–11.63	5285	48.18	46.80–49.56
Employment status							<0.001
Unemployment	107	37.97	33.70–42.44	4517	41.02	39.92–42.12
Dependent	16	5.32	3.89–7.23	2074	18.71	17.33–20.17
Independent	170	56.71	52.43–60.90	4462	40.28	39.16–41.41
Health insurance							<0.001
No	57	23.39	19.56–27.72	3492	33.69	32.65–34.76
Yes	236	76.61	72.28–80.44	7561	66.31	65.24–67.35
Drug Prescriptions							0.149
No	221	73.96	68.21–78.99	7970	69.92	68.18–71.61
Yes	72	26.04	21.01–31.79	3083	30.08	28.39–31.82
Type of institution							0.470
Apothecary	43	12.76	8.24–19.25	1626	14.80	13.40–16.10
Pharmacy	250	87.24	80.75–91.76	9427	85.20	83.90–86.40
Level of care							<0.001
I Level	59	22.41	18.46–26.92	2173	22.46	19.36–25.90
II Level	220	69.79	63.86–75.13	6785	49.46	45.94–53.00
III Level	14	7.80	4.00–14.67	2095	28.08	25.48–30.84
Geographic region of residency							<0.001
Metropolitan Lima	4	3.67	1.41–9.22	1505	29.80	26.79–33.00
Other regions	289	96.33	90.78–98.59	9548	70.20	66.99–73.21

95%CI: 95 % Confidence intervals.

Weights and the design effect of the complex survey sampling were included.

^aRefers to the statistical significance obtained from the comparison of the proportions between the categories of the variables considering the complex sampling of the survey.