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Cumulative Proportion of Health Payments by Consumption Deciles and Kakwani's indices, Malaysia 1998/99 |
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| Indices |
Consumption |
Direct taxes |
Indirect taxes |
Contributions to EPF and SOCSO |
Private insurance premiums |
Out-of- pocket payments |
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| Gini/Concentration index |
0.4051* |
0.8003* |
0.3273* |
0.4862* |
0.6985* |
0.5094* |
| Robust standard error |
- |
0.0072 |
0.0642 |
0.0094 |
001735 |
0.0363 |
| 95% Confidence intervals |
- |
0.6745–0.9261 |
0.3089–0.3457 |
0.4435–0.5289 |
0.3585–1.0385 |
0.4383–0.5805 |
| Kakwani indices |
- |
0.3952* |
-0.0779* |
0.0811* |
0.2934 |
0.1043* |
| Robust standard error |
- |
0.0620 |
0.0088 |
0.0204 |
0.1726 |
0.0358 |
| 95% Confidence intervals |
0.2737–0.5167 |
-0.0607- (-0.0951) |
0.0412–0.1210 |
0.2917–0.2951 |
0.1018–0.1068 |
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Note: * significantly different from zero at 5%. | ||||||
Yu et al. International Journal for Equity in Health 2008 7:15 doi:10.1186/1475-9276-7-15 |
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