Table 3 Decomposition of Concentration Index for Outpatient health care utilization in rural and non-rural
From: Assessing horizontal equity in health care utilization in Iran: a decomposition analysis
Rural | Non-rural | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coef | Elast | CI | Cont to C | C% | Coef | Elast | CI | Cont to C | C% | |
Age | ||||||||||
< 30 | ||||||||||
30–59 | −0.014*** | − 0.029 | − 0.032 | 0.000 | 2.45 | −0.000 | − 0.001 | − 0.039 | 0.000 | 0.63 |
≥ 60 | −0.015*** | − 0.009 | 0.012 | −0.000 | − 0.30 | − 0.004 | − 0.003 | 0.016 | − 0.000 | − 0.70 |
Sex | ||||||||||
Female | ||||||||||
Male | −0.007* | −0.022 | −0.007 | 0.000 | 0.45 | 0.001 | 0.003 | −0.008 | −0.000 | − 0.46 |
Health statue | ||||||||||
Good | ||||||||||
Poor | 0.320*** | 0.215 | −0.008 | −0.001 | −4.86 | 0.328*** | 0.219 | −0.005 | −0.001 | −15.77 |
Subtotal need | −0.000 | −2.26 | −0.001 | −16.30 | ||||||
Education | ||||||||||
College and above | ||||||||||
Middle & High school | −0.006 | − 0.006 | − 0.028 | 0.000 | 0.45 | 0.002 | 0.004 | −0.025 | −0.000 | −1.45 |
Uneducated & Elementary | 0.007 | 0.032 | 0.203 | 0.006 | 17.05 | 0.004 | 0.013 | 0.188 | 0.002 | 35.15 |
Basic insurance | ||||||||||
Yes | ||||||||||
No | −0.039*** | −0.012 | 0.007 | −0.000 | −0.25 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.029 | 0.000 | 0.25 |
Supplementary insurance | ||||||||||
Yes | ||||||||||
No | 0.015** | 0.085 | 0.333 | 0.028 | 74.05 | 0.009*** | 0.040 | 0.258 | 0.010 | 147.63 |
Being employed | ||||||||||
Yes | ||||||||||
No | 0.016*** | 0.035 | −0.012 | − 0.000 | −1.14 | − 0.003 | − 0.007 | −0.011 | 0.000 | 1.28 |
Martial statue | ||||||||||
Single | ||||||||||
Married | −0.005** | −0.019 | 0.011 | −0.000 | − 0.60 | − 0.008** | − 0.029 | 0.024 | − 0.000 | −9.89 |
Economic statue | ||||||||||
Poorest SES | 0.001 | 0.001 | −0.227 | − 0.000 | − 0.96 | 0.005 | 0.019 | − 0.540 | − 0.010 | − 149.42 |
2th SES | − 0.001 | − 0.002 | − 0.083 | 0.000 | 0.51 | 0.009 | 0.009 | 0.057 | 0.000 | 7.93 |
Middle SES | −0.013** | −0.016 | 0.024 | −0.000 | −1.02 | 0.004 | 0.002 | 0.068 | 0.000 | 2.61 |
4th SES | 0.018*** | 0.018 | 0.098 | 0.001 | 4.87 | 0.021*** | 0.012 | 0.765 | 0.000 | 12.90 |
5th SES | ||||||||||
Subtotal non-need | 0.035 | 92.96 | 0.003 | 46.99 | ||||||
Total | 0.0358 | 0.002 | ||||||||
Residual | 0.002 | 0.005 | ||||||||
C | 0.038* | 0.007 | ||||||||
HI | 0.039*** | 0.008*** | ||||||||