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