Free health care for under-fives, expectant and recent mothers? Evaluating the impact of Sierra Leone’s free health care initiative

Table 3 The impact of the FHCI in formal and informal health facilities

	Formal private			Informal private/others
	Simple linear	Linear interaction	Quadratic interaction	Simple linear	Linear interaction	Quadratic interaction
Utilisation (LPM)
ITT effect (Age ≥ 5 years)	−0.0286	−0.0377	−0.0875	0.0995^**	0.105^**	0.0526
	(0.031)	(0.033)	(0.069)	(0.050)	(0.050)	(0.083)
N	1633	1633	1633	1633	1633	1633
AIC	566.7^a	567.4	568.2	1774.2^a	1776.0	1779.3
Probability of reporting zero consultation and prescription expenditure (LPM)
ITT effect (Age ≥ 5 years)	0.0946	0.0980	0.0902	0.00674	−0.0694	−0.0659
	(0.197)	(0.193)	(0.339)	(0.081)	(0.094)	(0.146)
N	152	152	152	465	465	465
AIC	226.0^a	228.0	231.9	519.6	518.6^a	522.3
Total expenditure (two-part model showing marginal effects) ^b
ITT effect (Age ≥ 5 years)	−0.948	−1.104	−139.1	0.190	0.245	−3.891
	(1.239)	(1.525)	(308.367)	(0.201)	(0.194)	(10.624)
N	152	152	152	465	465	465
AIC	626.9	624.5	618.4^a	419.6	419.1	417.1^a

Control variables includes region dummies, head of households’ age and education
Standard errors in parentheses
LPM linear probability model
^** p < 0.05
^aOptimal model specification
^bRegional dummies excluded for informal private/others due to no observations in the Western region

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