Table 8
Household healthcare expenditure as percentage of household expenditure by household income group*
| Ambulatory healthcare expenditure | Total health care | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income group | All households | Households reporting illness | All households | Households reporting illness |
| *Mean percentages of poor and non-poor households significantly different in all four cases (p<0.01). | ||||
| Poor | ||||
| number of households | 438 | 335 | 438 | 335 |
| mean | 13.4 | 17.4 | 16.8 | 21.9 |
| (95% CI) | (10.8 to 16.0) | (14.2 to 20.6) | (12.6 to 21.0) | (16.7 to 27.1) |
| median | 4.7 | 9.0 | 5.3 | 10.0 |
| Non-poor | ||||
| number of households | 218 | 158 | 218 | 158 |
| mean | 3.2 | 4.5 | 5.6 | 8.2 |
| (95% CI) | (2.4 to 4.0) | (3.3 to 5.7) | (2.8 to 8.4) | (4.4 to 12.0) |
| median | 1.1 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 2.7 |
| Total | ||||
| number of households | 656 | 493 | 656 | 493 |
| mean | 10.0 | 13.3 | 13.2 | 17.5 |
| (95% CI) | (8.2 to 11.8) | (11.1 to 15.50) | (10.2 to 16.2) | (13.7 to 21.3) |
| median | 2.6 | 5.0 | 2.8 | 6.3 |
