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Table 1 Summary Statistics – Unmatched Samples

From: Health shock and preference instability: assessing health-state dependency of willingness-to-pay for corrective eyeglasses

 

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Entire Sample

[N = 2118]

Unmatched Without-Health-Shock Group

[N = 1560]

With-Health-Shock Group

[N = 558]

P Value

Mean

SD

Female

57.0%

49.5%

58.7%

52.3%

0.009 ***

Married

80.1%

39.9%

84.0%

69.4%

0.000 ***

Owns a TV

74.7%

43.5%

72.4%

81.0%

0.000 ***

Owns a mobile

85.5%

35.2%

81.7%

96.2%

0.000 ***

Respondent’s Contribution to Family Income

38.1%

41.1%

39.3%

34.6%

0.021 **

Family Income (BDT)

16,631.3

15,591.1

14,968.0

21,281.7

0.000 ***

Land (Decimal)

24.89

128.86

11.0

63.73

0.000 ***

Age

35.9

14.1

34.8

38.6

0.000 ***

Respondent’s Income (BDT)

5614.1

7897.4

5375.6

6280.6

0.020 **

Family Size

 1–2

13.7%

 

14.8%

10.6%

0.000 ***

 3–4

50.5%

 

53.2%

43.0%

 5+

35.8%

 

32.0%

46.4%

Occupations

 Wage Workers

14.9%

 

19.2%

2.9%

0.000 ***

 Self-employed

10.0%

 

9.9%

10.4%

 Garment Workers

8.6%

 

10.5%

3.4%

 Service

11.8%

 

8.5%

20.8%

 Homemakers

33.8%

 

33.9%

33.7%

 Others

20.9%

 

18.0%

28.8%

Education

 Never been to School

35.6%

 

39.5%

24.7%

0.000 ***

 Primary

27.6%

 

31.2%

17.6%

 Secondary

17.0%

 

17.9%

14.3%

 SSC/Dakhil/Equivalent

8.1%

 

5.9%

14.5%

 HSC/Alim/Equivalent

5.6%

 

3.2%

12.2%

 Graduate

3.6%

 

1.8%

8.6%

 Post Graduate

1.5%

 

0.4%

4.3%

 Others

1.0%

 

0.1%

3.8%

  1. (a) P value for comparison between With and Without-Health-Shock groups: generated using t-test of difference in means for continuous variables and Chi-square test of independence for categorical variables, (b) Asterisks indicate statistical significance (*** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05), (a) US$ 1 is equivalent to BDT 84.397