Table 3.

Multivariate pooled linear regression results for predicting the effect of selected background characteristics of OOPE for tuberculosis (2004–2018).

Background Characteristics	Coef.	p-value	[95% Conf Interval]		Sig
			Lower	Upper
Constant	8.021	0.00	7.509	8.533	***
Age (in years)
0-14 ®	0
15–35	−0.322	0.142	−0.753	0.109
36–59	−0.394	0.056	−0.798	0.011	*
60 and above	0.156	0.624	−0.469	0.781
Education
Illiterate ®	0
Up toPrimary	0.137	0.478	−0.242	0.515
Middle	0.404	0.123	−0.111	0.919
Secondary and above	−0.082	0.795	−0.707	0.543
Gender
Male®	0
Female	0.275	0.092	−0.046	0.596	*
MPCE quintile
Poorest®	0
Poorer	−0.18	0.455	−0.653	0.294
Middle	−0.467	0.058	−0.95	0.015	*
Richer	−0.468	0.074	−0.982	0.046	*
Richest	−0.253	0.318	−0.751	0.245
Place of residence
Rural®	0
Urban	0.183	0.587	−0.48	0.845
Type of health facility
Public hospital	0	.	.	.
Private hospital	0.581	0.049	0.004	1.159	**
Type of ward
Free®	0
Paid	0.823	0.002	0.303	1.343	***
Duration of stay in hospital
Up to 5 days®	0
6–10 days	0.837	0.00	0.432	1.242	***
11 and above	1.287	0.00	0.921	1.652	***
Health-care coverage
No	0
Yes	−0.328	0.071	−0.685	0.029	*

Mean dependent var	8.716	SD dependent var	1.324
R-squared	0.379	Number of obs	202
F-test	6.601	Prob > F	0.000
Akaike crit. (AIC)	625.514	Bayesian crit. (BIC)	685.063

***p < 00.01, **p < 00.05, *p < 00.1.