Table 4.
Frequency (%) | Age–sex adjusted concentration indices | Normalisedbconcentration indices (%) | ||||
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Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | |
2001 | ||||||
N | 63,887 | 104,254 | ||||
Illnesses requiring hospitalisation | 5.0 | 5.8 | ||||
Community hospitals | 13.2 | 29.4 | −0.334 | −0.126 | −38.5 | −17.8 |
Regional/provincial/general hospitals | 55.9 | 58.4 | −0.058 | 0.015 | −13.2 | 3.6 |
Private hospitals | 30.9 | 12.2 | 0.248 | 0.229 | 35.9 | 26.1 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||||
2005 | ||||||
N | 21,015 | 30,996 | ||||
Illnesses requiring hospitalisation | 4.8 | 6.0 | ||||
Community hospitals | 20.4 | 45.3 | −0.231 | −0.059 | −29.0 | −10.8 |
Regional/provincial/general hospitals | 47.4 | 44.2 | −0.041 | −0.025 | −7.8 | −4.5 |
Private hospitals | 32.2 | 10.5 | 0.206 | 0.360 | 30.4 | 40.2 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 |
The concentration index is negative (or positive) when the health outcome is concentrated towards the lower (or higher) end of the socioeconomic scale. The larger its absolute value (maximum=1.0), the more pronounced the inequality is. Normalised results are presented as percentages of limiting values for each concentration index.
Possible values range from −100 to +100.