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Table 2 Frequency of impoverished households due to health expenditures in the years 2003, 2008, and 2015

From: Increase of catastrophic health expenditure while it does not have socio-economic anymore; finding from a district on Tehran after recent extensive health sector reform

Impoverishment

2003

2008

2015

Frequency

Percent (confidence interval)

Frequency

Percent (confidence interval)

Frequency

Percent (confidence interval)

Have

48

10.2 (7.7–13.4)

31

5.5 (3.7–7.6)

53

9.8 (8.2–13.9)

Not Have

419

89.8 (86.6–92.3)

538

94.5 (92.4–96.3)

437

90.2 (86.1–91.8)

Total

467

100

569

100

490

100