Table 2.

Episodes of illness for which a provider was used according to the choice of provider (%)

	Equalized household expenditure quintiles					Total	p-value
	Bottom	2	3	4	Top
Used drugs or services
Used service (public/private)	956(66.3)	1,088(70.4)	1,254(71.7)	1,440(82.7)	1,385(84.1)	6,123(75.4)	**
Self-treatment	470(32.6)	435(28.1)	480(27.5)	283(16.2)	242(14.7)	1,910(23.5)	**
M ixed all	16(1.1)	23(1.5)	14(0.8)	19(1.1)	20(1.2)	92(1.1)
Total	1,442(100)	1,546(100)	1,748(100)	1,742(100)	1,647(100)	8,125(100)

HH is the abbreviation of household; p-value for the comparison between the lowest and highest quintile groups; *** denotes significant at the 1% level; **denotes significant at 5% level. Percentage shares are shown within brackets.