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. 2012 Dec 13;11:75. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-75

Table 7.

Availability of services and SES: Availability across SES quintiles, equity ratio, concentration index and indirectly standardized concentration index (*=p<0.05; **=p<0.01)

Outcome: Availability of services SES Quintiles
P- value (chi-squared test of association by SES quintiles) Equity ratio Concentration index1 INDIRECTLY standardized concentration index1
Poorest 20%
2ndquintile
3rdquintile
4thquintile
Least poor 20%
n=68
n=65
n=30
n=38
n=47
%
%
%
%
%
[95% CI] [95% CI] [95% CI] [95% CI] [95% CI]
Laboratory
15.6
42.6
32.0
46.3
53.5
P = 0.02*
3.43
0.05
0.05
N=246
[8.2-27.7]
[23.3-64.5]
[12.4-61.1]
[31.8-61.5]
[35.5-70.6]
P=0.01*
P=0.01*
All childhood immunizations every weekday
47.6
59.7
42.3
31.5
47.7
P = 0.22
1.00
−0.02
−0.03
N=247
[30.9-64.7]
[33.9-81.1]
[13.8-77.1]
[16.8-51.1]
[26.7-69.5]
P=0.15
P=0.20
All antenatal care every weekday
83.3
73.9
63.5
67.0
87.4
P = 0.40
1.05
<0.01
<0.01
N=246
[62.5-93.7]
[45.6-90.5]
[18.1-93.2]
[53.6-78.1]
[71.7-95.0]
P=0.89
P=0.97
Family planning
92.9
100
100
97.3
96.4
P = 0.31
1.04
<−0.01
<−0.01
N=247
[81.5-97.5]
[81.3-99.7]
[83.7-99.3]
P=0.81
P=0.35
Delivery
60.5
57.5
36.6
48.3
42.1
P = 0.57
0.70
−0.37
<−0.01
N=247
[39.2-78.4]
[25.8-84.1]
[12.8-69.4]
[35.9-60.9]
[19.0-69.4]
P=0.28
P=0.87
VCT/PITC
88.1
66.7
87.0
97.3
86.9
P=0.05
0.99
0.15
0.04
N=247
[79.5-93.5]
[46.2-82.4]
[62.3-96.4]
[81.3-99.7]
[67.5-95.5]
P=0.42
P=0.03*
PMTCT
91.7
83.4
85.2
90.1
90.7
P = 0.76
0.99
<0.01
0.01
N=240
[80.2-96.8]
[37.4-97.7]
[43.2-97.7]
[66.9-97.6]
[73.8-97.1]
P=0.82
P=0.74
ART
23.1
34.0
29.2
25.6
20.3
P = 0.62
0.88
<−0.01
<−0.01
N=247
[12.4-38.9]
[20.9-50.1]
[10.5-59.2]
[15.6-39.0]
[12.8-30.7]
P=0.65
P=0.99
ITN
81.6
74.7
99.7
82.7
82.9
P = 0.39
1.02
<−0.01
−0.02
N=247
[68.5-90.0]
[37.0-93.7]
[98.4-99.9]
[35.3-97.7]
[48.5-96.1]
P=0.93
P=0.60
Outreach
35.9
45.5
56.5
46.5
38.8
P = 0.56 1.08 <−0.01
0.03
N=247 [26.4-46.7] [32.1-59.6] [22.3-85.4] [30.9-62.8] [15.4-68.9] P=0.91 P=0.08

1 P-value for the concentration index shows whether the concentration index is significantly different from zero.