Economic consequences of ill-health for households in northern rural India

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of household shocks

	Probability	Concentration index	Standard error	Average cost	Expected cost	Perceived severe	Recovered
	Proportion			Multiples of monthly food expenditures		Proportion	Proportion
Illness or death	0.338	0.003	0.022	5.79	1.955	0.367	0.246
Natural disaster	0.511	0.198	0.042	17.1	8.737	0.534	0.212
Crop, livestock disease	0.076	0.01	0.015	5.445	0.413	0.374	0.304
Job loss/no salary	0.023	−0.025	0.01	7.145	0.163	0.329	0.457
Fall in sale price	0.023	0.011	0.007	6.111	0.142	0.501	0.354
Rise input price	0.013	0.006	0.005	13.833	0.178	0.254	0.205
Conflict	0.013	0.009	0.004	5.167	0.065	0.253	0.084
Wedding	0.076	0.013	0.013	41.203	3.114	0.582	0.12

Notes: Probability of shock occurring, concentration index and standard error, average and expected cost (in multiples of household monthly food spending), perceived severity and recovery.

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