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. 2021 May 5;6(5):e004823. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004823

Table 3.

Summary of financial indicators’ rate of change of country groups

Indicator (US$) Year range Estimated intercept coefficients Estimated slope coefficients and p values Trend comparison p values
LIC+
α00
LIC−
α0001
LIC+
α10
LIC−
α1011
χ2 KR PB χ2 KR PB
Government health spending per capita* 2000–2016 6.06
(1.81)
9.14
(2.22)
0.30
(0.05)
−0.16
(0.06)
<0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
DAH per birth on newborn and child health vaccines* 2000–2017 5.32
(3.20)
1.90
(3.92)
1.75
(0.19)
1.59
(0.24)
0.50 0.51 0.50 0.28 0.31 0.30
Total spending per birth on routine immunisation vaccines† 2006–2017 14.17
(2.97)
6.30
(3.79)
1.19
(0.32)
1.34
(0.42)
0.72 0.72 0.72 0.057 0.063 0.068
Government spending per birth on routine immunisation vaccines† 2.32
(0.55)
1.46
(0.68)
0.22
(0.04)
0.10
(0.05)
0.0090 0.0093 0.0087 0.0021 0.0038 0.0033

Each financial indicator was fitted by a linear mixed-effects regression model. The table shows the intercept and slope coefficients of LIC+ (α00 and α10) and LIC− (α0001 and α1011) with their SE in parentheses. χ2, KR and PB represent the p values of an asymptotic χ2 test, a Kenward-Roger approximation for F tests for reduction of mean structure and a parametric bootstrap method (10 000 simulations), respectively.25 There are two types of p values presented: the first corresponds to the significance of the slope coefficient α11, that is, if the yearly rate of change of LIC+ is significantly different from the yearly rate of change of LIC−. The second type of p values compare the overall trends of LIC+ and LIC−, that is, it does not refer to the significance of a specific coefficient but to the significance of intercept and slope combined. P values below 0.05 are highlighted in bold.

*Constant 2018 US$.

†Constant 2010 US$.

DAH, development assistance for health; LIC, low-income countries.