Out-of-pocket expenditure on maternity care for hospital births in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the study variables, n = 230

Variable	Categories	Mean/ Proportion	Standard Error
Age (in years)		26.04	0.2400
Education level of women	Up to high school	0.4696	0.0330
	Intermediate	0.1304	0.0223
	Under graduation and above	0.4000	0.0324
Religion	Hindu	0.8304	0.0248
Religion	Muslim	0.1696	0.0248
Social group	SC/ST	0.1739	0.0250
	OBC	0.3652	0.0318
	General	0.4609	0.0329
Per capita annual income (Rs.)		2108.92	149.23
Place of residence	Urban	0.5913	0.0325
Place of residence	Rural	0.4087	0.0325
Social networks	Yes	0.1000	0.0198
Social networks	No	0.9000	0.0198
Mass media exposure	No	0.1739	0.0250
Mass media exposure	Yes	0.8261	0.0250
Number of previous pregnancies		1.0800	0.0600
Last pregnancy registered with ANM	Yes	0.3826	0.0321
Last pregnancy registered with ANM	No	0.6174	0.0321
Number of ANC visits		5.15	0.2000
Quality of ANCs	Low	0.1609	0.0243
	Medium	0.1348	0.0226
	High	0.7043	0.0302
Place of ANCs	Government hospital	0.6565	0.0314
Place of ANCs	Private hospital	0.3435	0.0314
Distance to ANC hospital		11.80	1.15
Who has taken decision on institutional delivery	Self/Family planned	0.5652	0.0328
Who has taken decision on institutional delivery	Doctor advised/ rushed to hospital due to EmOC	0.4348	0.0328
Type of delivery	Normal	0.4087	0.0325
Type of delivery	Caesarean/forceps	0.5913	0.0325
Type of hospital for delivery	Government hospital	0.4870	0.0330
	Government aided hospital	0.2652	0.0292
	Private hospital	0.2478	0.0285
Received JSY	Yes	0.313	0.0306
Received JSY	No	0.687	0.0306
JSY amount ^a		Rs. 1040.00	24.00

Note: ^a Estimate based on the sample who received the JSY by the date of survey

ISSN: 2191-1991