Table 4

Agreement between households and provider in OOPs by number of health expenditure items and spending category

No of health items within each spending categoryNo of householdsTotal no of health questionsMean ratio95% limits of agreement of mean ratioEstimated difference in mean ratio between questionnaire versions and CI and p valueEstimated diffference in SD of mean ratio between questionnaire versions and CI and p value
Outpatient carep=0.49 p=0.50
2 health items44111.020.05 to 21.2
12 health items126441.210.05 to 26.71.29 (0.74 to 2.23)1.02 (0.73 to 1.42)
12 health items47561.560.12 to 19.61.47 (0.77 to 2.80)0.84 (0.57 to 1.25)
Inpatient carep=0.003p=0.01
2 health items91113.880.17 to 86.2
14 health items99446.610.16 to 270.71.63 (0.99 to 2.69)1.35 (1.03 to 1.76)
14 health items100569.190.51 to 161.22.34 (1.44 to 3.83)0.93 (0.71–1.21)
Medicinesp=0.023p=0.33
2 health items302111.260.10 to 16.0
9 health items381441.350.09 to 19.51.14 (0.91 to 1.42)1.04 (0.91 to 1.19)
16 health items354561.620.18 to 15.01.36 (1.01 to 1.70)0.95 (0.83 to 1.08)
Preventive carep=0.290p=0.51
2 health items86111.210.09 to 15.15
5 health items67440.890.04 to 18.90.74 (0.46 to 1.14)1.19 (0.88 to 1.62)
5 health items22561.330.08 to 22.41.07 (0.55 to 2.05)1.04 (0.68 to 1.60)
  • Note: The unit of the estimated difference is the mean ratio expressed as a ratio between household and provider for each questionnaire version.

  • OOP, out-of-pocket.