Table 2.

Impoverishing impact of OOP healthcare payments (rural/urban) in Ghana using the $1.25/day poverty line, 2005/06

	Rural				Urban
National	Gross of health payment(1)	Net of health payment(2)	Absolute 3 = (2)-(1)	Relative [(3)/(1)]*100	Gross of health payment (1)	Net of health payment(2)	Absolute 3 = (2)-(1)	Relative [(3)/(1)]*100
Poverty headcount	24.60%	26.55%	1.95%	7.92%	4.60%	5.61%	1.01%	21.92%
Standard error	0.24603	0.26552	0.01949		0.00878	0.00959	0.00209
Poverty gap	132947.4	168074.5	35127.13	26.42%	21749.56	66729.64	44980.07	206.81%
Standard error	9021.38	12,135	7717.53		5603.97	29485.95	28742.86
Normalized poverty gap	7.83%	9.90%	2.07%	26.42%	1.28%	3.93%	2.65%	206.81%
Standard error	0.00531	0.00715	0.00455		0.00330	0.01737	0.01693
Normalized mean poverty gap	31.83%	37.29%	5.46%	17.14%	27.84%	70.05%	42.21%	151.65%
Standard error	0.0123	0.01924	–		0.03170	0.30448	–