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Table 3 Estimated coefficients in Logit model for catastrophic health care expenditure (Household level data)

From: Household catastrophic health expenditure: evidence from Georgia and its policy implications

Variable

B

Wald

P Value

Odds

Ratio

CI 95.0% for

Odds Ratio

Intercept

-0.67

14.6

<0.001

0.17

 

Chronic costs

(1 if HH had recurrent cost due to chronic condition)

1.49

109.4

<0.001

4.41

(3.34: 5.83)

Hospitalization

(1 if HH faced cost of hospitalization otherwise 0)

3.30

85.4

<0.001

27.13

(13.47: 54.64)

Poorest Quintile (Reference Group)

 

72.8

<0.001

  

2nd Quintile

-0.82

20.7

<0.001

0.44

(0.31: 0.63)

3rd Quintile

-1.15

36.5

<0.001

0.32

(0.22: 0.46)

4th Quintile

-1.34

45.1

<0.001

0.26

(0.18: 0.39)

   Richest Quintile

-1.30

41.3

<0.001

0.27

(0.18: 0.41)

   Capital city Tbilisi (Reference group)

 

13.4

0.001

  

   East Georgia

-0.53

9.9

0.002

0.59

(0.42: 0.82)

   West Georgia

-0.61

12.1

0.001

0.55

(0.39: 0.77)

Log likelihood

1,764.1

    

Pseudo R2

0.085

    

Hosmer-Lemeshow test

χ2(8) = 11.16

    
 

P = 0.19

    

Observations

2,859

    
  1. 1 In May-June 2007, 1 USD was app. equal to 1.68 GEL (the exchange rate varied from 1.67 – 1.69 during this period)