Characteristics of the households and their healthcare costs in the 3 months preceding and succeeding the threshold
| Months-age | |||||||
| Character | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 |
| Number of households (number of households with healthcare costs above zero) | 96 (95) | 107 (103) | 95 (92) | 106 (99) | 100 (93) | 107 (103) | 114 (107) |
| Number of people in each household Mean (SD) | 3.2 (1.3) | 3.2 (1.3) | 3.4 (1.4) | 3.4 (1.7) | 3.3 (1.3) | 3.3 (1.4) | 3.2 (1.3) |
| Types of households | |||||||
| With single-parent | 63 (65.6%) | 66 (61.7%) | 63 (66.3%) | 70 (66.0%) | 61 (61.0%) | 68 (63.6%) | 79 (69.3%) |
| With disabled person | 2 (2.1%) | 2 (1.9%) | 2 (2.1%) | 2 (1.9%) | 1 (1.0%) | 2 (1.9%) | 1 (0.9%) |
| With older people | 13 (13.5%) | 11 (10.3%) | 12 (12.6%) | 11 (10.4%) | 11 (11.0%) | 11 (10.3%) | 14 (12.3%) |
| Others | 18 (18.8%) | 28 (26.2%) | 18 (18.9%) | 23 (21.7%) | 27 (27.0%) | 26 (24.3%) | 20 (17.5%) |
| Monthly household income (US$) Mean (SD) | 1551.3 (615.8) | 1520.9 (617.6) | 1532.5 (616.2) | 1488.6 (649.9) | 1488.9 (547.8) | 1484.6 (576.9) | 1482.1 (571.0) |
| Monthly healthcare costs per household (US$) Mean (SD) | 485.7 (951.6) | 309.2 (337.6) | 358.3 (380.7) | 461.9 (1146.2) | 601.3 (1288.7) | 674.5 (1391.8) | 575.0 (1248.8) |
| Monthly total healthcare costs (US$) | 46 631.0 | 33 083.3 | 34 039.5 | 48 958.2 | 60 130.0 | 72 168.3 | 65 548.9 |
| Medical outpatient | 18 156.5 (38.9%) | 13 118.2 (39.7%) | 9322.8 (27.4%) | 23 833.9 (48.7%) | 17 879.0 (29.7%) | 28 409.8 (39.4%) | 25 402.2 (38.8%) |
| Medical Inpatient | 7445.1 (16.0%) | 4132.1 (12.5%) | 0 (0%) | 1551.6 (3.2%) | 19 173.3 (31.9%) | 22 958.0 (31.8%) | 9954.1 (15.2%) |
| Dental | 4559.9 (9.8%) | 6332.9 (19.1%) | 5870.5 (17.2%) | 3824.9 (7.8%) | 5007.0 (8.3%) | 7884.4 (10.9%) | 8305.7 (12.7%) |
| Pharmacy | 9387.5 (20.1%) | 9500.1 (28.7%) | 18 846.2 (55.4%) | 9253.8 (18.9%) | 16 235.7 (27.0%) | 12 916.1 (17.9%) | 12 921.9 (19.7%) |
| Visiting nurses and nursing homes | 7082.0 (15.2%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 10 494.0 (21.4%) | 1835.0 (3.1%) | 0 (0%) | 8965.0 (13.7%) |
| Municipality | |||||||
| A | 2 (2.1%) | 5 (4.7%) | 2 (2.1%) | 5 (4.7%) | 3 (3.0%) | 1 (0.9%) | 4 (3.5%) |
| B | 5 (5.2%) | 8 (7.5%) | 5 (5.3%) | 9 (8.5%) | 11 (11.0%) | 9 (8.4%) | 6 (5.3%) |
| C | 8 (8.3%) | 6 (5.6%) | 9 (9.5%) | 12 (11.3%) | 8 (8.0%) | 11 (10.3%) | 11 (9.6%) |
| D | 36 (37.5%) | 40 (37.4%) | 39 (41.1%) | 35 (33.0%) | 36 (36.0%) | 41 (38.3%) | 49 (43.0%) |
| E | 45 (46.9%) | 48 (44.9%) | 40 (42.1%) | 45 (42.5%) | 42 (42.0%) | 45 (42.1%) | 44 (38.6%) |
‘Monthly total healthcare costs’ were calculated by summing up the all-households’ healthcare costs in each month. ‘Monthly healthcare costs per household’ was calculated by dividing the ‘Monthly total healthcare costs’ by the number of the households included in each month.