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Table 3 Distribution of household expenditure and the progressivity of the health care financing sources

From: Improving equity in health care financing in China during the progression towards Universal Health Coverage

Income quintiles

Per capita household expenditure

General taxation

UEBMI

URBMI

NRCMS

OOP

Overall

1—poorest

6.15%

6.37%

1.72%

11.35%

30.35%

6.39%

 

2

11.61%

12.19%

7.30%

15.17%

24.96%

9.65%

 

3

16.29%

17.13%

15.04%

21.88%

18.09%

11.82%

 

4

22.71%

23.42%

25.01%

22.00%

13.58%

18.72%

 

5—richest

43.24%

40.89%

50.93%

29.60%

13.02%

53.42%

 

Gini/CI

0.3678 ** (0.3581 to 0.3772)

0.3436 ** (0.3342 to 0.3529)

0.4978 ** (0.4673 to 0.5283)

0.1940 ** (0.1515 to 0.2364)

−0.1921 ** (−0.2138 to −0.1704)

0.4572 ** (0.3985 to 0.5160)

 

KI

\

−0.0241 ** (−0.0315 to −0.0166)

0.1301 ** (0.1008 to 0.1594)

−0.1737 ** (−0.2166 to −0.1308)

−0.5598 ** (−0.5830 to −0.5365)

0.0896 ** (0.0345 to 0.1447)

0.0444

Weight

 

0.3779

0.1576

0.0087

0.0097

0.4461

 

Dominance test

 - Against the 45° line

D-

D-

D-

D+

D-

 

 - Against the Lorenz curve

D+

D-

D+

D+

D-

 
  1. Note: The 95% confidence intervals are in the parentheses; **implies statistical significance at the level of 0.01; *implies statistical significance at the level of 0.05; D+ (D-) implies that the concentration curve dominates (is dominated by) the line of equity or the Lorenz curve