Table 3.
Indicator (US$) | Year range | Estimated intercept coefficients | Estimated slope coefficients and p values | Trend comparison p values | |||||||
LIC+ α00 |
LIC− α00+α01 |
LIC+ α10 |
LIC− α10+α11 |
χ2 | KR | PB | χ2 | KR | PB | ||
Government health spending per capita* | 2000–2016 | 6.06 (1.81) |
9.14 (2.22) |
0.30 (0.05) |
−0.16 (0.06) |
<0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 |
DAH per birth on newborn and child health vaccines* | 2000–2017 | 5.32 (3.20) |
1.90 (3.92) |
1.75 (0.19) |
1.59 (0.24) |
0.50 | 0.51 | 0.50 | 0.28 | 0.31 | 0.30 |
Total spending per birth on routine immunisation vaccines† | 2006–2017 | 14.17 (2.97) |
6.30 (3.79) |
1.19 (0.32) |
1.34 (0.42) |
0.72 | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.057 | 0.063 | 0.068 |
Government spending per birth on routine immunisation vaccines† | 2.32 (0.55) |
1.46 (0.68) |
0.22 (0.04) |
0.10 (0.05) |
0.0090 | 0.0093 | 0.0087 | 0.0021 | 0.0038 | 0.0033 |
Each financial indicator was fitted by a linear mixed-effects regression model. The table shows the intercept and slope coefficients of LIC+ (α00 and α10) and LIC− (α00+α01 and α10+α11) with their SE in parentheses. χ2, KR and PB represent the p values of an asymptotic χ2 test, a Kenward-Roger approximation for F tests for reduction of mean structure and a parametric bootstrap method (10 000 simulations), respectively.25 There are two types of p values presented: the first corresponds to the significance of the slope coefficient α11, that is, if the yearly rate of change of LIC+ is significantly different from the yearly rate of change of LIC−. The second type of p values compare the overall trends of LIC+ and LIC−, that is, it does not refer to the significance of a specific coefficient but to the significance of intercept and slope combined. P values below 0.05 are highlighted in bold.
*Constant 2018 US$.
†Constant 2010 US$.
DAH, development assistance for health; LIC, low-income countries.