Informal payments and intra-household allocation of resources for health care in Albania

Table 1 The incidence and amounts paid informally in outpatient and inpatient health care services.

	Outpatient Service		Inpatient Services
Household Types	The incidence of informal payments	Amount paid informally (per visit)	The incidence of informal payments	Amount paid informally (per admission)
Nuclear household	0.27	104.78**	0.60	5203.23
Extended household	0.25	73.74**	0.58	4792.98
Mean for the total sample	0.26	91.25	0.59	5019.79

Note: Amounts are in Albanian Leks. All prices are deflated to 2002 prices. 100 ALL = 0.73 Euros in June 2002 (Bank of Albania, 2010). All series are deflated with 2002 prices. Stars indicate if the mean for the particular group is significantly different from the mean of all other groups (*** p < .01, ** p < .05, * p < .1).

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