From: Medicine expenses and obesity in Brazil: an analysis based on the household budget survey
Variables | Quintiles of household income per capita (mean values) | Brazil | ||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | ||
Area (%) | ||||||
Rural | 31.1 | 18.5 | 14.6 | 9.0 | 4.7 | 15.6 |
Urban | 68.9 | 81.5 | 85.4 | 91.0 | 95.3 | 84.4 |
Region (%) | ||||||
North and Northeast | 61.4 | 40.2 | 28.3 | 19.0 | 15.8 | 33.0 |
Mid-South | 38.6 | 59.8 | 71.7 | 81.0 | 84.2 | 67.1 |
Number of dwellers in households | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
Proportion of children under 2 years of age in family unit (%) | 6.4 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 3.2 |
Proportion of children 2–9 years of age in family unit (%) | 17.2 | 11.2 | 6.9 | 5.6 | 3.7 | 8.9 |
Proportion of adolescents (10–19 years) in family unit (%) | 23.0 | 18.1 | 12.3 | 9.7 | 7.5 | 14.1 |
Proportion of elderly (65 years or older) in family unit (%) | 2.6 | 7.1 | 16.8 | 15.9 | 15.7 | 11.6 |
Proportion of women in family unit (%) | 50.7 | 51.3 | 51.6 | 52.7 | 52.6 | 51.8 |
Monthly household income per capita (US$) | 97.22 | 213.22 | 353.00 | 591.38 | 1968.82 | 644.70 |
Proportion of monthly household income per capita dedicated to monthly medicine expenses per capita (out-of-pocket expenditure) (%) | 5.1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 3.4 |