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

Quintussi, Marta; Van de Poel, Ellen; Panda, Pradeep; Rutten, Frans

doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0833-0

BMC Health Services Research

Table 3 Determinants of coping strategies for various household shocks

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

	Do nothing	Spend savings	Sell animals/land/assets	Work more hours	Send children to work	Assistance from relatives	Borrow from money-lenders	Borrow from bank/ SHG	Buy less food	Reduce non-food expenses
Proportion elderly	0.06	0.08	0.012	−0.09	−0.028	−0.043	0.06	−0.049	−0.074	−0.033
Proportion children	−0.022	0.077	−0.039	−0.025	−0.064**	0.048	0.164**	−0.016	0.035	−0.009
Proportion reproductive age	−0.052	0.071	−0.006	0.198*	−0.028	0.08	0.06	−0.008	−0.053	−0.104
Scheduled caste/tribe	−0.013	−0.041	−0.003	−0.04	−0.003	0.001	0.026	0.015	−0.041	−0.028
Hindu	0.005	0.029	−0.002	0.021	−0.024	−0.045	0.027	0.036*	0.071	0.059
SHG	−0.013	−0.045*	0.002	−0.02	0.01	0.009	0.005	0.040**	−0.014	−0.003
Pratapgarh	0.092**	0.192**	−0.055**	−0.023	0.004	0.058*	−0.197**	−0.001	−0.108**	−0.133**
Vaishali	−0.128**	0.164**	−0.032*	−0.173**	−0.054**	−0.037	0.324**	−0.003	0.021	0.147**
Middle wealth third	0.045**	0.009	0.024	−0.057	0.001	−0.054**	−0.081**	0.025	−0.025	−0.015
Upper wealth third	0.021	0.105**	0.050**	−0.069*	−0.012	−0.034	−0.131**	0.049**	−0.057*	−0.034
Crop, livestock	0.111**	−0.113**	0.008	−0.07	0.018	−0.024	−0.03	−0.003	−0.145**	−0.02
k disease
Illness or death	−0.026	−0.042	0.013	−0.049	0.014	0.028	0.061*	−0.025*	−0.014	0.025
Job loss/no salary	−0.009	−0.189**	−0.004	−0.127	0.057	0.037	−0.046	0.096**	0.139*	−0.055
Fall in sale price	−0.015	−0.144*	−0.008	0.027	0.059	0.014	0.003	−0.005	0.233**	−0.243**
Rise input price	−0.034	−0.023	−0.009	0.087	−0.028*	−0.034	0.002	0.021	0.169	−0.232*
Conflict	−0.064**	0.275**	−0.050**	0.279**		−0.092**	−0.214**	−0.051**	0.295**	−0.230*
Wedding	−0.043*	−0.04	0.031	−0.03	0.039*	0.137**	0.202**	−0.005	−0.042	−0.077
Baseline probability	0.120	0.430	0.069	0.551	0.050	0.135	0.322	0.067	0.302	0.486
Observations	5426	5426	5426	5426	5364	5426	5426	5426	5426	5426
Pseudo R2	0.155	0.041	0.035	0.034	0.070	0.032	0.183	0.042	0.093	0.034

Notes: Marginal effects from probit regression. Data on shocks level. Coping strategies are not mutually exclusive. Results are only shown for coping strategies with a baseline probability higher than 0.05. Natural disasters are the omitted shocks category. Standard errors are adjusted for clustering of observations on household level. **significant at 5%, *significant at 10%.

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