Inequity in health care utilization for common childhood illnesses in India: measurement and decomposition analysis using the India demographic and health survey 2015–16

Maharatha, Tulasi Malini; Dash, Umakant

doi:10.1186/s12913-021-06887-2

Table 3 Detailed decomposition analysis of the EI estimated for CCHI

From: Inequity in health care utilization for common childhood illnesses in India: measurement and decomposition analysis using the India demographic and health survey 2015–16

Variables	Coefficient	EI	Absolute	Relative
Need based
Child’s age (base category: Year 0)			0.000	− 0.003
Year 1	0.003	−0.007	0.000	0.000
Year 2	−0.009	−0.007	0.000	0.000
Year 3	−0.027^a	−0.001	0.000	0.000
Year 4	−0.036^a	0.009	0.000	−0.003
Birth order (base category: > 2)
Birth order <= 2	0.018^a	0.266	0.005	0.031
Anemia
Not anemic	0.003	0.055	0.000	0.002
Non-need based
Sex of child (base category: Female)
Male	0.024^a	0.004	0.000	0.002
Continuum of maternal care (base category: No care/Incomplete care)
Complete care	0.076^a	0.380	0.029	0.187
Religion (base category: Muslim)			0.002	0.016
Hindu	−0.011	−0.056	0.001	0.004
Christian	0.029	0.014	0.000	0.003
Other religion	0.046	0.030	0.001	0.009
Caste (base category: Schedule Caste (SC))			0.001	0.004
Schedule Tribe (ST)	−0.030^a	−0.110	0.003	0.021
Other Backward Caste (OBC)	−0.007	0.038	0.000	−0.002
Other caste	−0.014	0.178	−0.002	−0.016
Place of delivery (base category: Rural)
Urban	0.031^a	0.454	0.014	0.091
Media exposure (base category: No media)
At least one media	0.031^a	0.602	0.019	0.120
Mother’s education (base category: No education)			0.013	0.085
Primary education	0.019^b	−0.103	−0.002	−0.012
Secondary education	0.020^a	0.313	0.006	0.040
Higher education	0.040^a	0.225	0.009	0.058
Age at marriage (base category: < 18 years)
> = 18 years	0.015^b	0.264	0.004	0.026
Insurance (base category: No)
Yes	0.016^c	0.032	0.001	0.004
State groups (base category: North East high focus states)			0.014	0.088
Non-high focus states	0.197^a	0.353	0.070	0.450
High focus states	0.164^a	−0.341	−0.056	−0.362
Affordability (base category: Big problem)			0.014	0.093
Not a big problem	0.030^a	−0.020	− 0.001	−0.004
No problem	0.052^a	0.290	0.015	0.097
Availability (base category: Big problem)			−0.002	−0.010
Not a big problem	0.001	0.003	0.000	0.000
No problem	−0.009	0.168	−0.002	− 0.010
Acceptability (base category: Big problem)			0.002	0.011
Not a big problem	0.008	−0.057	0.000	−0.003
No problem	0.012	0.174	0.002	0.014
Basic Amenities and Socio-economic Profile (BASEP) (base category: A)			0.005	0.029
Category B	0.044^a	0.039	0.002	0.011
Category C	0.022^b	0.126	0.003	0.018
Residual			0.035	0.222

^a1% level of significance, ^b5% level of significance, ^c10% level of significance; EI: Erreygers Index

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