Table 2 Insurance coverage by background characteristics
Age: 50–69 | Age: 70 plus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Characteristics | %Insured | N | %Insured | N |
Hospital in community | No | 51.39 | 3946 | 60.61 | 1683 |
Yes | 78.57 | 140 | 80.52 | 77 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
Clinic in community | No | 47.25 | 2567 | 55.35 | 1131 |
Yes | 60.90 | 1519 | 72.50 | 629 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
Motorable road passes through community | No | 41.79 | 627 | 43.48 | 253 |
Yes | 54.24 | 3459 | 64.50 | 1507 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
Region | Upper West | 65.22 | 716 | 70.67 | 300 |
Western | 49.83 | 303 | 44.64 | 112 | |
Central | 34.83 | 333 | 49.49 | 99 | |
Greater Accra | 38.46 | 52 | 56.52 | 23 | |
Volta | 53.79 | 422 | 60.14 | 281 | |
Eastern | 48.43 | 479 | 62.50 | 200 | |
Ashanti | 58.17 | 349 | 67.67 | 133 | |
Brong Ahafo | 58.47 | 313 | 73.64 | 129 | |
Northern | 31.71 | 514 | 42.44 | 172 | |
Upper East | 62.15 | 605 | 66.24 | 311 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
Expenditure | Poorest | 46.38 | 1175 | 54.76 | 546 |
Poor | 49.42 | 775 | 63.12 | 404 | |
Middle | 51.79 | 697 | 61.86 | 291 | |
Rich | 51.91 | 682 | 64.55 | 299 | |
Richest | 65.39 | 757 | 70.45 | 220 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.001 | |||
Employment status of head | Employee public | 84.78 | 138 | 80.77 | 26 |
Employee private | 50.24 | 3529 | 59.63 | 1288 | |
Self employed | 85.71 | 35 | 81.25 | 16 | |
Other inactive | 56.88 | 385 | 65.12 | 430 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.012 | |||
Internet access | No | 61.38 | 580 | 58.19 | 287 |
Yes | 50.83 | 3506 | 62.12 | 1473 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.211 | |||
Sex | Male | 47.65 | 1897 | 57.59 | 837 |
Female | 56.37 | 2189 | 65.01 | 923 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.001 | |||
Education | None | 48.85 | 2270 | 61.19 | 1430 |
Primary | 53.98 | 1595 | 60.73 | 303 | |
Secondary and higher | 76.02 | 221 | 85.19 | 27 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.038 | |||
Marital Status | Married | 52.53 | 3025 | 62.11 | 921 |
Never married/Separated/Divorced | 45.22 | 387 | 50.00 | 112 | |
Widowed | 55.49 | 674 | 62.45 | 727 | |
p-value | 0.005 | 0.036 | |||
Disability | Yes | 48.24 | 170 | 58.41 | 214 |
No | 52.50 | 3916 | 61.90 | 1546 | |
p-value | 0.275 | 0.325 | |||
Religion | None | 38.46 | 318 | 52.76 | 163 |
Christian | 56.97 | 2461 | 65.63 | 998 | |
Muslim | 47.09 | 1287 | 56.93 | 599 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
Ethnicity | Akan | 53.14 | 1244 | 65.42 | 480 |
Ga-Dangme | 45.60 | 193 | 54.79 | 73 | |
Ewe | 49.23 | 457 | 62.35 | 255 | |
Guan | 52.02 | 198 | 60.61 | 99 | |
Gurma | 36.63 | 243 | 37.27 | 110 | |
Mole-Dagbani | 54.46 | 1333 | 61.76 | 578 | |
Other | 58.85 | 418 | 67.27 | 165 | |
p-value | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||