Comparative study of the effect of National Health Insurance Scheme on use of delivery and antenatal care services between rural and urban women in Ghana

Table 6 PSM results of NHIS enrolment on Delivery Care and ANC visits

	WomenEnrolled in NHIS (n^T)	Women not Enrolled in NHIS (n^C)	Average Effects	S.E.	Z Value
Place of Delivery
Common Support Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.035*	0.019	1.86
Rural	1651	806	0.103***	0.028	3.62
Urban	1219	483	0.010	0.020	0.5
Nearest Neighbor Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.035***	0.016	2.16
Rural	1651	806	0.103***	0.029	3.61
Urban	1229	483	0.010	0.019	0.52
Kernel Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.062***	0.017	3.58
Rural	1651	806	0.109***	0.022	4.93
Urban	1229	483	0.005	0.015	0.37
Assistance at Delivery
Common Support Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.045**	0.020	2.31
Rural	1651	806	0.027***	0.027	4.17
Urban	1229	483	0.015	0.021	0.7
Nearest Neighbor Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.046**	0.021	2.13
Rural	1651	806	0.114***	0.029	3.9
Urban	1229	483	0.015	0.021	0.71
Kernel Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.068***	0.016	4.33
Rural	1651	806	0.117***	0.022	5.22
Urban	1229	483	0.007	0.014	0.51
Number of ANC visits
Common Support Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.324**	0.124	2.62
Rural	1651	806	0.591***	0.152	3.89
Urban	1229	483	0.174	0.182	0.95
Nearest Neighbor Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.330**	0.119	2.78
Rural	1651	806	0.591***	0.164	3.6
Urban	1229	483	0.187	0.181	1.03
Kernel Matching Technique
National	2880	1289	0.432***	0.101	4.28
Rural	1651	806	0.626***	0.126	4.98
Urban	1229	483	0.233**	0.131	1.77

*, **, and *** indicate 1, 5, and 10% levels of significance respectively. n^T: Treated Group, n^C: Control Group
S.E: Bootstrap standard errors
Source: Authors computation

ISSN: 2191-1991