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Table 1 Asset index

From: Access to medicines and out of pocket payments for primary care: Evidence from family medicine users in rural Tajikistan

     

Means

Variables in Asset index

Scoring factor

Mean

Std. Deviation

Scoring factor/Std. Deviation

Poorest 40%

Middle 40%

Richest 20%

N persons per room

-0.089

2.38

1.08

-0.082

2.802

2.169

1.958

Main source of drinking water – Tap at home

0.271

0.27

0.45

0.608

0.018

0.216

0.886

Main source of drinking water – Public tap

-0.222

0.23

0.42

-0.530

0.479

0.102

0

Type of toilet – Hole

0.381

0.97

0.18

2.151

0.921

1.000

1.000

No toilet

-0.341

0.02

0.14

-2.496

0.043

0

0

Frequent meet consumption

0.203

0.17

0.38

0.537

0.018

0.157

0.491

Possess a car

0.203

0.23

0.42

0.481

0.052

0.257

0.533

Possess a TV

0.102

0.85

0.36

0.283

0.723

0.883

1.000

Dwelling all in good materials

0.228

0.35

0.48

0.480

0.119

0.394

0.707

Asset index

 

0

0.98

 

-0.224

0.802

1.976

  1. Each variable besides number of person per room takes the value 1 if true, 0 otherwise. Scoring factor is the "weight" assigned to each variable (normalized by its mean and standard deviation) in the linear combination of the variables that constitute the first principal component.