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Table 1 Respondent characteristics

From: Forgone healthcare and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis

Variables

Frequency

Values

95% confidence interval

Lower

Upper

Mean (95% CI)

 Household size

39,124

4.51

4.45

4.56

 Age, years

39,124

27.53

27.12

27.93

 OOP payments (BD TK)

39,124

12,362.17

11,724.55

12,999.78

Percentage (95% CI)

 Gender

  Female

21,248

54.36

53.69

55.04

  Male

17,875

45.64

44.96

46.31

 Religion

  Muslim

34,758

90.10

88.29

91.65

  Non-Muslim

4363

9.90

8.35

11.71

 Marital status

  Never married

10,934

34.27

33.26

35.30

  Currently married

19,930

58.88

57.86

59.88

  Widoweda

2277

6.85

6.46

7.27

 Have chronic illness

  Yes

12,004

29.00

27.85

30.18

  No

27,120

71.00

69.82

72.15

Inpatient care

 None

37,312

95.56

95.06

96.01

 Public hospital/clinic

1099

2.58

2.27

2.94

 Private providers

713

1.86

1.63

2.12

Outpatient care

 None

4631

14.08

12.30

16.08

 Public hospital/clinic

5214

12.47

11.67

13.31

 Private hospital/clinic

16,396

41.34

39.39

43.33

 Self-medicationb

12,883

32.11

30.63

33.62

 Income earner

  No

25,490

72.37

71.57

73.16

  Yes

9940

27.63

26.84

28.43

 Place of residence

  rural

27,712

74.10

71.54

76.51

  urban

11,412

25.90

23.49

28.46

  1. aWidowed/Divorced/Separated
  2. bSelf-medication/traditional healer
  3. BD TK Bangladesh currency Taka