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. 2016 Jun 1;5(12):693–703. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.65

Table 5. Two-Part Model Estimation of OOP Health Payments .

Number of observations = 7739, Clusters = 591
Wald chi2 (18) = 328.7, Prob > chi2 = 0.000
Log pseudo likelihood = -4544.3, Pseudo R2 = 0.075
Variables OR 95% CI
Distance to health facility 1.010** 1.002 1.018
Age in years 1.007*** 1.005 1.010
Gender 1.026 0.933 1.130
Region of residence 0.805* 0.651 0.997
Log of household per capita expenditure  1.387*** 1.296 1.484
No formal education (reference category) - -
Primary level 1.119 0.882 1.419
Secondary level 1.033 0.805 1.325
Tertiary level 1.168 0.830 1.644
Malaria or fever (reference category) - -
Respiratory illnesses 1.168 0.884 1.543
Diarrhoea 1.008 0.786 1.292
Headache 0.932 0.766 1.133
Other illnesses 1.254*** 1.099 1.431
Public health post (reference category) - -
Tertiary/secondary hospital 1.547*** 1.232 1.942
District hospital 2.175*** 1.609 2.941
Public health centre 1.262*** 0.862 1.848
Mission health facility 0.121 0.097 0.140
Private/other health facility 3.747*** 3.133 4.001
Employment status 0.929 0.892 1.025
Constant 0.070*** 0.068 0.110
Generalised linear model estimation
Number of observations = 2559
Clusters = 526
Deviance = 7263.7
Pearson = 43 782.6
Bayesian information Criterion = -12 514.5
AIC = 9.81
Log pseudo likelihood = -12 532.3
Variable Coefficient SE adjusted for clustering on psu
Distance to health facility 0.013*** 0.003
Age in years 0.025*** 0.003
Gender  -0.358* 0.154
Region of residence 0.317* 0.177
Log of household per capita expenditure 0.147** 0.069
No formal education (reference category) - -
Primary level 0.429** 0.117
Secondary level 0.680*** 0.223
Tertiary level 0.266 0.268
Malaria of fever(reference category)  - -
Respiratory illnesses -0.053 0.249
Diarrhoea 0.018 0.219
Headache -0.543** 0.218
Other illnesses 0.273 0.172
Public health post (reference category) - -
Tertiary/secondary hospital 1.650*** 0.323
District hospital 0.479** 0.212
Public health centre 0.245 0.218
Mission health facility 0.542 0.285
Private/other health facility 1.414*** 0.275
Employment status 0.568* 0.292
Constant 1.352*** 0.428

Abbreviations: OR, Odds ratio; OOP, out-of-pocket; AIC, Akaike information criterion; SE, standard error.

*** P < .01, ** P < .05, * P < .10.