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Table 1 Surveyed Household characteristics across each region of Ethiopia 2018/19

From: Catastrophic and impoverishing out-of-pocket health expenditure in Ethiopia: evidence from the Ethiopia socioeconomic survey

Region

Av HH size

Number by sex (%)

Male Female

Rural/urban HHs (%)

Literacy

Employ-ment status (%)

Tigray

3.79

1309 (47.3)

1457 (52.7)

393 (58.2)

283 (41.9)

1468 (61.2)

1.49

Afar

4.13

1169 (50.8)

1133 (49.2)

299 (46.4)

225 (53.6)

737 (39.2)

1.02

Amhara

3.81

1447 (48.1)

1561 (51.9)

479 (63.9)

271 (36.1)

1300 (50.7)

1.15

Oromia

4.45

1705 (49)

1778 (51)

453 (60.2)

300 (39.8)

1475 (49.7)

1.86

Somalia

5.69

1772 (50.7)

1723 (49.3)

355 (58.2)

255 (41.8)

1237 (39.3)

0.64

Benishangul gumuz

4.03

760 (50.3)

751 (49.7)

169 (46.4)

195 (53.6)

748 (57.7)

1.4

SNNP

4.57

1594 (48.3)

1704 (51.7)

422 (61.1)

269 (38.9)

1517 ((53.2)

0.56

Gambella

4.47

1127 (49.9)

1133 (50.1)

195 (39.4)

300 (60.6)

1306 (66.6)

0.57

Harar

3.76

1010 (48)

1093 (52)

190 (42.2)

360 (57.8)

1193 (64.9)

1.18

Addis Ababa

3.79

1311 (44.4)

1645 (55.6)

0

778 (100)

2393 ((88.4)

5.7

Dire Dawa

3.96

1115 (48)

1206 (52)

160 (27.6)

419 (72.4)

1422 (68.5)

1.5

National

4.24

14,319 (48.5)

15,184 (51.5)

3115 (46)

3655 (54)

14,796 (57.6)

1.5