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Table 3 Descriptive statistics for household level variables

From: Inputs for universal health coverage: a methodological contribution to finding proxy indicators for financial hardship due to health expenditure

Variable

Overall proportion of households

95 % Confidence Interval

Overall standard deviation

Standard deviation between countries

Standard deviation within countries

Household member under 5

0.338

0.336

0.340

0.473

0.151

0.456

Household member over 60

0.308

0.306

0.310

0.462

0.113

0.450

Household head with primary education

0.420

0.418

0.422

0.494

0.184

0.455

Household head with secondary or higher education

0.219

0.218

0.221

0.414

0.247

0.366

Male household head

0.800

0.799

0.802

0.400

0.110

0.390

Urban residence

0.495

0.494

0.497

0.500

0.221

0.449

Insurance coverage reported

0.253

0.250

0.250

0.435

0.381

0.308

Disabled household member

0.112

0.110

0.113

0.315

0.036

0.313