Table 3. Household out-of-pocket spending on health care in the previous 30 days, by economic quintile,^a Nepal, 2011–2012.

Expenditure	Households that reported expenditure on health
	All (n = 1 517)	Quintile 1 (n = 270)	Quintile 2 (n = 275)	Quintile 3 (n = 301)	Quintile 4 (n = 324)	Quintile 5 (n = 347)
Costs per household, Nepalese rupees (SE)b
Outpatient	1 999 (202)	1 564 (266)	2 123 (664)	1 559 (149)	2 037 (242)	2 722 (514)
Inpatient	39 657 (6 310)	25 200 (12 437)	51 147 (20 377)	26 059 (8 153)	34 578 (7 170)	50 044 (8 104)
Ayurvedic	861 (138)	301 (55)	907 (251)	828 (131)	759 (460)	1 268 (340)
Other traditional medicine or healers	335 (100)	263 (117)	239 (80)	346 (130)	512 (336)	319 (117)
Transportation and other costs	471 (74)	31 (8)	143 (53)	98 (28)	90 (36)	69 (26)
Proportion of total household expenditure represented by out-of-pocket spending on health care, % (SE)	10.1 (1.26)	10.7 (1.55)	14.8 (3.80)	8.3 (1.81)	10.3 (3.24)	6.9 (1.48)

SE: standard error; US$: United States dollars.

^a Quintile 1 represents the poorest households and quintile 5 represents the wealthiest households.

^b The average conversion rate during the study was 1 Nepalese rupee to US$ 0.012.