Table 5.
Factors associated with out-of pocket expenditurea among women eligibleb for CYc who delivered between Jan-Jul 2013 in three districtsd of Gujarat, India (N=995)
Variablee | β coefficient | 0.95 CI | p-valuef | |
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Place of delivery | ||||
CY utilizer | 0.21 | 0.15, 0.27 | <0.001 | |
Government facility | Reference | |||
Type of delivery | ||||
C-section | 0.80 | 0.66, 0.95 | ||
Vaginal | Reference | <0.001 | ||
Eligibility criteria g | ||||
BPL or ST | 0.07 | 0.01,0.13 | ||
BPL and ST | Reference | 0.02 | ||
Constant | 0.67 | [0.47, 0.86] | <0.001 |
aUSD (corrected for June 2015) after accounting for discounting followed by log transformation; b women belonging to socially disadvantaged population; cdemand side financing scheme ‘Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY)’ to increase institutional delivery among socially disadvantaged population; d Dahod, Sabarkantha, Surendranagar; eVariables added to linear regression model (forward method) were place of delivery, delivery type, eligibility criteria, age group and education status: latter two were not included by the model; f Standard of living, parity, ANC visits and ANC complications had high collinearity with delivery type and were therefore not included in the model; gsocially disadvantaged groups which includes both schedule tribes and below poverty line
Model F stat: 54.5; p<0.001