Table 3 Percentage of men and women with health insurance according to demographic and socio-economic characteristics
From: Examining gender differentials and determinants of private health insurance coverage in Zambia
Men | Women | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Not Insured | Insured | P-value | Not Insured | Insured | P-value | ||||
% | CI | % | CI | % | CI | % | CI | % | ||
Marital union | ||||||||||
Not in union | 97.9 | [97.2,98.5] | 2.1 | [1.5,2.8] | 0.0000 | 98.3 | [97.7,98.8] | 1.7 | [1.2,2.3] | 0.0000 |
In union | 96 | [95.0,96.8] | 4 | [3.2,5.0] | 97.6 | [96.9,98.2] | 2.4 | [1.8,3.1] | ||
Age Group | ||||||||||
15–24 | 98.9 | [98.0,99.4] | 1.1 | [0.6,2.0] | 0.0000 | 99 | [98.5,99.4] | 1 | [0.6,1.5] | 0.0000 |
25–34 | 96.4 | [95.3,97.2] | 3.6 | [2.8,4.7] | 97 | [95.9,97.8] | 3 | [2.2,4.1] | ||
35–44 | 95.8 | [94.3,96.8] | 4.2 | [3.2,5.7] | 97.2 | [96.2,97.9] | 2.8 | [2.1,3.8] | ||
45+ | 94.1 | [92.2,95.5] | 5.9 | [4.5,7.8] | 97.9 | [96.1,98.9] | 2.1 | [1.1,3.9] | ||
Media Exposure | ||||||||||
No access/exposure | 99.8 | [99.5,99.9] | 0.2 | [0.1,0.5] | 0.0000 | 99.8 | [99.7,99.9] | 0.2 | [0.1,0.3] | 0.0000 |
Access to media/exposed | 96.2 | [95.3,96.9] | 3.8 | [3.1,4.7] | 96.9 | [96.0,97.6] | 3.1 | [2.4,4.0] | ||
Wealth Index | ||||||||||
Poor | 100 | [99.9100.0] | 0 | [0.0,0.1] | 0.0000 | 100 | [99.9100.0] | 0 | [0.0,0.1] | 0.0000 |
Middle | 99.8 | [99.5,99.9] | 0.2 | [0.1,0.5] | 99.9 | [99.6100.0] | 0.1 | [0.0,0.4] | ||
Rich | 93.3 | [91.9,94.5] | 6.7 | [5.5,8.1] | 95.6 | [94.4,96.6] | 4.4 | [3.4,5.6] | ||
Education Level | ||||||||||
No education | 96.7 | [87.4,99.2] | 3.3 | [0.8,12.6] | 0.0000 | 100 | 0 | 0.0000 | ||
Primary | 99.7 | [99.3,99.9] | 0.3 | [0.1,0.7] | 99.9 | [99.8100.0] | 0.1 | [0.0,0.2] | ||
Secondary | 98.3 | [97.8,98.7] | 1.7 | [1.3,2.2] | 98.1 | [97.2,98.7] | 1.9 | [1.3,2.8] | ||
Tertiary | 75.5 | [71.1,79.4] | 24.5 | [20.6,28.9] | 78.2 | [73.0,82.7] | 21.8 | [17.3,27.0] | ||
Type of place of residence | ||||||||||
Urban | 93.9 | [92.4,95.1] | 6.1 | [4.9,7.6] | 0.0000 | 96.1 | [94.8,97.1] | 3.9 | [2.9,5.2] | 0.0000 |
Rural | 99.3 | [98.9,99.5] | 0.7 | [0.5,1.1] | 99.6 | [99.3,99.7] | 0.4 | [0.3,0.7] | ||
Occupation | ||||||||||
Not working | 99.4 | [98.9,99.7] | 0.6 | [0.3,1.1] | 0.0000 | 98.8 | [98.3,99.2] | 1.2 | [0.8,1.7] | 0.0000 |
Professional/technical/managerial | 78.2 | [73.7,82.1] | 21.8 | [17.9,26.3] | 80.8 | [75.8,84.9] | 19.2 | [15.1,24.2] | ||
Clerical | 78.5 | [58.5,90.5] | 21.5 | [9.5,41.5] | 70.1 | [54.8,82.0] | 29.9 | [18.0,45.2] | ||
Sales | 98.3 | [96.6,99.2] | 1.7 | [0.8,3.4] | 98.6 | [97.7,99.1] | 1.4 | [0.9,2.3] | ||
Agriculture:self-employed | 99.8 | [99.4100.0] | 0.2 | [0.0,0.6] | 99.9 | [99.4100.0] | 0.1 | [0.0,0.6] | ||
Household and domestic | 99.2 | [97.3,99.7] | 0.8 | [0.3,2.7] | 98.6 | [96.8,99.4] | 1.4 | [0.6,3.2] | ||
Services | 92.8 | [88.9,95.4] | 7.2 | [4.6,11.1] | 95.5 | [89.3,98.2] | 4.5 | [1.8,10.7] | ||
Skilled manual | 96.2 | [94.8,97.3] | 3.8 | [2.7,5.2] | 93 | [85.4,96.8] | 7 | [3.2,14.6] | ||
Unskilled manual | 98 | [96.3,98.9] | 2 | [1.1,3.7] | 98.7 | [97.5,99.3] | 1.3 | [0.7,2.5] | ||