Utilization of the state led public private partnership program “Chiranjeevi Yojana” to promote facility births in Gujarat, India: a cross sectional community based study

Table 5 Factors associated with out-of pocket expenditure^a among women eligible^b for CY^c who delivered between Jan-Jul 2013 in three districts^d of Gujarat, India (N=995)

Variable^e		β coefficient	0.95 CI	p-value^f
Place of delivery
	CY utilizer	0.21	0.15, 0.27	<0.001
	Government facility	Reference
Type of delivery
	C-section	0.80	0.66, 0.95
	Vaginal	Reference		<0.001
Eligibility criteria ^g
	BPL or ST	0.07	0.01,0.13
	BPL and ST	Reference		0.02
Constant		0.67	[0.47, 0.86]	<0.001

^aUSD (corrected for June 2015) after accounting for discounting followed by log transformation; ^b women belonging to socially disadvantaged population; ^cdemand side financing scheme ‘Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY)’ to increase institutional delivery among socially disadvantaged population; ^d Dahod, Sabarkantha, Surendranagar; ^eVariables added to linear regression model (forward method) were place of delivery, delivery type, eligibility criteria, age group and education status: latter two were not included by the model; ^f Standard of living, parity, ANC visits and ANC complications had high collinearity with delivery type and were therefore not included in the model; ^gsocially disadvantaged groups which includes both schedule tribes and below poverty line
Model F stat: 54.5; p<0.001

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