Table 3.

Association between household cost and other variables

Variables	Number of patients (N)	Household cost, BDT (US $)		t / F-statistic	P-value
		Average	SD
Age group (years)
Up to 4	460	3440.66 (43.83)	4549.87 (57.96)	14.43a	<0.0001
5 to 14	55	2483.17 (31.63)	3113.52 (39.66)
15 to 45	195	4963.35 (63.23)	4766.65 (60.72)
46 to 60	62	6706.05 (85.43)	8555.34 (108.99)
60+	29	8407.58 (107.10)	5987.61 (76.28)
Age group under five and others
Under 5 years old patients	460	3440.66 (43.83)	4549.87 (57.96)	4.60b	<0.0001
More than 5 years old patients	341	5173.09 (65.90)	5753.68 (73.30)
Sex
Male	404	4441.82 (56.58)	5581.65 (71.10)	1.46b	0.14
Female	397	3909.90 (49.81)	4696.13 (59.82)
Type of care
Inpatient care	402	6570.79 (83.70)	5457.71 (69.52)	14.88b	<0.0001
Outpatient care	399	1767.58 (22.52)	3465.92 (44.15)
Income quintile
Poorest quintile (≤10,000)	276	3689.3 (47.00)	4412.93 (56.22)	0.28a	0.89
2nd quintile (10,001- 12,000)	82	4037.95 (51.44)	4785.6 (60.96)
3rd quintile (12,001-18,000)	166	4202.38 (53.53)	4866.93 (62.00)
4th quintile (18,001-30,000)	187	4453.03 (56.73)	5789.56 (73.75)
Upper quintile (30,000+)	90	5189.48 (66.11)	6549.86 (83.44)
For under 5 years old patients
Sex
Male	248	3571.68 (45.50)	4566.33 (58.17)	0.67b	0.505
Female	212	3287.38 (41.88)	4536.52 (57.79)
Type of care
Inpatient care	142	6770.96 (86.25)	4376.74 (55.75)	11.36b	<0.0001
Outpatient care	318	1953.54 (24.89)	3777.22 (48.12)
Income quintile
Poorest quintile (≤10,000)	167	3499.31 (44.58)	4596.37 (58.55)	0.28a	0.8919
2nd quintile (10,001- 12,000)	48	3835.03 (48.85)	5304.53 (67.57)
3rd quintile (12,001-18,000)	94	3076.29 (39.19)	3794.47 (48.34)
4th quintile (18,001-30,000)	111	3554.23 (45.28)	5024.53 (64.01)
Upper quintile (30,000+)	40	3263.63 (41.57)	3697.33 (47.10)

^aOne-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to derive significance level

^bIndependent two samples t-test was performed to derive significance level