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. 2012 Sep 19;4(6):129–140. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v4n6p129

Table 4.

Nested logit regression result using traditional as the base category

0-5 (2) Male Female
Facilities Characteristics
No Care 3.315 (0.000) -0.064 (0.002) 1.890 (0.011)
Hospital 0.951 (0.000) 1.344 (0.000) 2.981 (0.000)
Health post 1.948 (0.000) -0.425 (0.0012) -2.435 (0.000)
Pharmacist 1.277 (0.000) 3.120 (0.005) 1.982 (0.000)
Consultation Fees 0.001 (0.000) -0.002 (0.000) 0.146 (0.000)
Transportation cost 0.010 (0.000) 0.011 (0.124) 0.010 (0.000)
Consultation Time 0.234 (0.000) -0.346 (0.000) 1.548 (0.001)

Individual Characteristics
Male 0.001 (0.928) 0.243 (0.234) 1.320 (0.002)
Log of age -0.176 (0.305) -0.156 (0.000) -1.452 (0.005)
Primary education 0.038 (0.735) 1.382 (0.142) 2.456 (0.000)
Secondary education 0.336 (0.023) 0.233 (0.004) 1.432 (0.003)
Post secondary education 0.381 (0.143) 1.423 (0.024) 0.569 (0.010)

Household Characteristics
Household size -0.008 (0.696) -0.823 (0.004) 2.235 (0.002)
Log of PC H/h Expenditure -0.097 (0.919) -0.217 (0.713) -1.987 (0.013)
Sqd log of PC H/h Exp. 0.069 (0.602) 0.0046 (0.406) 2.142 (0.322)
Monogamous 0.694 (0.335) 0.197 (0.011) 2.380 (0.014)
Polygamous 0.603 (0.410) 0.346 (0.005) 3.127 (0.120)
Once married 0.403 (0.592) 0.253 (0.023) 2.142 (0.006)

Disease Characteristics
Days activities stop due to illness 0.192 (0.000) 1.980 (0.000) 2.345 (0.006)
Injury 0.034 (0.923) 1.342 (0.020) 2.110 (0.013)
Both injury and illness -0.773 (0.000) -0.645 (0.865) -0.348 (0.629)

Community Characteristics
Urban 0.010 (0.942) 0.398 (0.434) -2.112 (0.003)
North West -0.104 (0.442) 1.925 (0.334) 0.658 (0.211)
North Central 0.060 (0.709) 0.968 (0.052) 1.432 (0.221)
South East -0.215 (0.255) 0.547 (0.071) -0.347 (0.210)
South West -0.754 (0.001) 0.986 (0.004) 0.876 (0.003)
South South -0.655 (0.000) 1.256 (0.000) 0.964 (0.012)
Diagnostics
 LR test for IIA 42.53 (0.000)
 N 12090 6407 5683
 LR chi2 2136.297 0.0000) 1432.89 (0.000) 1654.11 (0.000)
 Log-likelihood -2823.4726 -2367.86 -1654.4

Note: P-values in brackets. Author’s computations using STATA for Windows Version 9.0; underlying data from NLSS, 2004