Table 6 The amount paid out-of-pocket for outpatient and inpatient health care services (excluding informal payments)
From: Informal payments and intra-household allocation of resources for health care in Albania
| Â | Outpatient service | Inpatient service | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Nuclear household | Extended household | Difference (nuclear- extended) | Nuclear household | Extended household | Difference (nuclear- extended) | ||||
Spouse of the household | 0.107 | (0.252) | 0.236 | (0.324) | -0.129 | -0.143 | (0.577) | 0.456 | (0.580) | -0.599 |
Children of the household | -0.697*** | (0.208) | -0.361*** | (0.131) | -0.336 | -0.100 | (0.506) | -0.018 | (0.341) | -0.081 |
(Household head) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Number of children into the household | -0.016 | (0.019) | 0.022 | (0.022) | -0.038 | -0.095** | (0.042) | -0.020 | (0.049) | -0.075 |
Sudden illness | -0.129*** | (0.049) | -0.085 | (0.054) | -0.044 | 0.166 | (0.133) | -0.232 | (0.147) | 0.397** |
Year of the survey (year 2002 = 0; year 2005 = 1) | -0.106** | (0.050) | -0.024 | (0.057) | -0.082 | 0.094 | (0.120) | 0.096 | (0.137) | -0.002 |
Health insurance | -0.253*** | (0.053) | -0.065 | (0.058) | -0.189*** | 0.006 | (0.125) | 0.072 | (0.142) | -0.066 |
ln income per capita | 0.011 | (0.023) | 0.014 | (0.026) | -0.003 | 0.046 | (0.056) | 0.014 | (0.056) | 0.033 |
Living in rural area | 0.199*** | (0.055) | 0.233*** | (0.060) | -0.035 | -0.023 | (0.129) | -0.028 | (0.149) | 0.005 |
Method to raise money - borrowing money | 0.206*** | (0.047) | 0.074 | (0.054) | 0.132* | -0.170 | (0.112) | -0.081 | (0.127) | -0.089 |
Method to raise money - animal, products & valuable | 0.156** | (0.067) | 0.222*** | (0.070) | -0.066 | 0.008 | (0.149) | -0.133 | (0.158) | 0.140 |
(Other method to raise money) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Age of the household head | -0.008** | (0.003) | 0.000 | (0.001) | -0.009** | -0.006 | (0.008) | 0.000 | (0.003) | -0.007 |
Age of the household spouse | -0.010*** | (0.003) | -0.001 | (0.005) | -0.009 | -0.002 | (0.007) | -0.009 | (0.009) | 0.007 |
Age of the household child | 0.021*** | (0.007) | 0.022*** | (0.007) | -0.001 | 0.020 | (0.013) | -0.017 | (0.014) | 0.038** |
Gender of the household head | 0.034 | (0.118) | 0.096 | (0.119) | -0.062 | 0.030 | (0.324) | -0.586 | (0.357) | 0.616 |
Gender of the household child | -0.151* | (0.084) | -0.053 | (0.140) | -0.098 | 0.029 | (0.207) | -0.569 | (0.351) | 0.599 |
Level of education of the hh head1 | 0.048* | (0.026) | 0.035 | (0.032) | 0.013 | 0.148** | (0.067) | -0.065 | (0.101) | 0.213 |
Level of education of the hh spouse | 0.051* | (0.029) | 0.061 | (0.051) | -0.010 | 0.188** | (0.074) | -0.098 | (0.143) | 0.286* |
Level of education of the hh child | -0.087 | (0.064) | 0.012 | (0.084) | -0.099 | 0.006 | (0.126) | 0.416** | (0.172) | -0.411* |
Constant | 7.251*** | (0.285) | 6.428*** | (0.240) | 0.824 | 6.033*** | (0.673) | 6.379*** | (0.480) | -0.346 |
Pseudo R2 | 0.1009 | 0.0660 | Â | 0.0455 | 0.0345 | Â | ||||
Number of observations | 1871 | 1378 | Â | 699 | 529 | Â | ||||