Table 3.
Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure, Health Expenditure as Percentage of Consumption Expenditure, Frequency of Illness of Household Members and Affordability of Health Services among the Multidimensionally Poor and the Multidimensionally Non-Poor Households in a Sample Population of India, Nepal and Myanmar, 2011-13
| Variable | India | Nepal | Myanmar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multidimensionally poor | Multidimensionally non-poor | All | Multidimensionally poor | Multidimensionally non-poor | All | Multidimensionally poor | Multidimensionally non-poor | All | |
| Monthly per capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) in US$ | 14.37 | 21.92 | 19.32 | 21.18 | 26.55 | 24.38 | 22.27 | 32.76 | 26.62 |
| Monthly per capita health expenditure in US$ | 2.02 | 3.32 | 2.88 | 3.14 | 3.69 | 3.47 | 2.35 | 3.42 | 2.79 |
| Monthly per capita health expenditure as percentage of MPCE | 14.84 | 13.91 | 14.23 | 10.55 | 10.44 | 10.49 | 10.55 | 10.44 | 10.49 |
| Frequency of illness of any household member during the 12 months preceding the survey | |||||||||
| Never/once/twice a year | 56.08 | 66.93 | 63.20 | 75.42 | 78.03 | 76.98 | 91.80 | 92.38 | 92.03 |
| Once or more than once in a month | 43.92 | 33.07 | 36.80 | 24.58 | 21.97 | 23.02 | 8.20 | 7.63 | 7.96 |
| Affordability of professional treatment | |||||||||
| Cannot afford | 61.75 | 46.64 | 51.83 | 59.79 | 44.36 | 50.60 | 17.66 | 7.93 | 13.62 |
| Can afford with difficulty | 31.46 | 35.32 | 33.99 | 20.76 | 17.35 | 18.73 | 41.14 | 28.07 | 35.72 |
| Can afford | 6.79 | 18.05 | 14.18 | 19.45 | 38.28 | 30.68 | 41.20 | 64.00 | 50.67 |
| Shocks/Problems faced by household members during the 12 months preceding the survey | |||||||||
| Family Sickness | 68.12 | 57.89 | 61.41 | 49.78 | 41.14 | 44.63 | 50.25 | 52.47 | 51.17 |
| Death of Household Members | 4.97 | 4.24 | 4.62 | 5.01 | 4.36 | 4.49 | 2.65 | 2.56 | 2.64 |
| Number of Households | 854 | 1793 | 2647 | 960 | 1350 | 2310 | 2514 | 1776 | 4290 |