Table 2.

Weights of different types of expenditure in total OOP among households incurring CHE: 2005–2015

	Minimum weight (% of HH)	1st quartile weight	Median weight	3rd quartile weight	Maximum weight (% of HH)
Medicines
2005/06	0 (6%)	0.5	0.93	1	1 (35.5%)
2010/11	0 (6.4%)	0.3	0.76	1	1 (33%)
2015/16	0.04 (0.3%)	0.28	0.43	0.79	1 (21.3%)
Consultations
2005/06	0 (64.5%)	0	0	0.07	0.83 (0.1%)
2010/11	0 (59.7%)	0	0	0.13	0.71 (1%)
2015/16	0 (49%)	0	0.08	0.24	0.83 (0.9%)
GPs	0 (64.4%)	0	0	0.13	0.70 (0.4%)
Spec.	0 (63.7%)	0	0	0.19	0.83 (0.9%)
Dentists
2005/06	0 (84.7%)	0	0	0	1 (0.2%)
2010/11	0 (79.0%)	0	0	0	1 (2.3%)
2015/16	0 (74.6%)	0	0	0.09	0.88 (0.2%)
Exams
2005/06	0 (82.9%)	0	0	0	0.91 (0.5%)
2010/11	0 (76.5%)	0	0	0	0.88 (0.5%)
2015/16	0 (76.7%)	0	0	0	0.6 (0.5%)
Paramedics
2005/06	0 (93.9%)	0	0	0	0.91 (0.3%)
2010/11	0 (89.2%)	0	0	0	0.94 (0.8%)
2015/16	0 (86.0%)	0	0	0	0.59 (0.8%)
Hospital
2005/06	0 (89.8%)	0	0	0	1 (2.1%)
2010/11	0 (94.5%)	0	0	0	0.86 (0.1%)
2015/16	0 (86.4%)	0	0	0	0.14 (0.5%)

Note 1: CHE – Catastrophic health expenditure; HH- Households; GPs- General Practitioners; Spec.- Specialists

Note 2: Zero (0) means that the service in question accounts for 0% of total health care expenditure (for example, 0 for ‘Consultations’ in the column ‘Median weight’ in 2005/06 means that at least 50% of families incurring CHE did not spend on medical consultations in this period); 0.13 for ‘GPs’ in the column ‘3rd quartile weight’ in 2015/16 means that in this period 75% of households with CHE used up to 13% of their health care payments to pay for GP consultations –it also means that the remainder 25% of households incurring CHE spent more than 13% of their total payments on GP consultations. The value of 1 means that the service in question represents 100% of out-of-pocket expenditures (for example, 1 for ‘Medicines’ in the column ‘Maximum weight’ means that some households incurring CHE spent on medicines alone – in 2005/06, this happened to 35.5% of households with CHE)