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Table 3 CHE incidence, intensity and inequality for urban and rural households

From: The comparison of catastrophic health expenditure and its inequality between urban and rural households in China

 

CHE incidence and intensity

Inequality in CHE

Incidence

HW

Overshoot

OW

MPO

CIH

CIO

2012

Urban households

11.01%

12.64%

2.15%

2.51%

19.53%

−0.1480

−0.1694

 

Rural households

18.42%

20.38%

4.02%

4.57%

21.82%

−0.1062

− 0.1373

2014

Urban households

11.99%

13.68%

2.51%

2.99%

20.93%

−0.1409

− 0.1903

 

Rural households

16.64%

18.74%

3.55%

4.05%

21.33%

−0.1261

− 0.1399

2016

Urban households

12.42%

13.85%

2.53%

2.89%

20.37%

−0.1148

− 0.1431

 

Rural households

18.45%

20.88%

4.07%

4.75%

22.06%

−0.1316

− 0.1659

2018

Urban households

11.88%

13.89%

2.34%

2.74%

19.70%

− 0.1693

−0.1707

 

Rural households

18.31%

21.06%

3.85%

4.54%

21.03%

−0.1501

− 0.1782

  1. Note: CHE Catastrophic health expenditure, HW rank-weighted catastrophic health expenditure incidence, OW rank-weighted overshoot, MPO Mean positive overshoot; CIH the concentration index of catastrophic health expenditure incidence; CIO the concentration index of overshoot