Reconciling research and implementation in micro health insurance experiments in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Doyle, Conor; Panda, Pradeep; Van de Poel, Ellen; Radermacher, Ralf; Dror, David M

doi:10.1186/1745-6215-12-224

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Table 3 Means of selected covariates across treatment and controls (in wave 1)

From: Reconciling research and implementation in micro health insurance experiments in India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

	Random draw
	Kanpur Dehat			Pratapgarh			Vaishali
	treated	control	p-value	treated	control	p-value	treated	control	p-value
Female (1/0)	0.48	0.49	0.22	0.52	0.53	0.27	0.53	0.52	0.52
Education (years)	4.83	4.95	0.48	4.30	4.30	0.97	3.34	3.08	0.07
Middle wealth third^† (1/0)	0.35	0.35	0.90	0.40	0.31	0.00	0.27	0.38	0.00
Highest wealth third^† (1/0)	0.37	0.34	0.33	0.29	0.33	0.10	0.34	0.30	0.22
Scheduled Tribe (1/0)	0.04	0.06	0.08	0.02	0.04	0.11	0.03	0.01	0.01
Scheduled Caste(1/0)	0.24	0.19	0.05	0.34	0.34	0.83	0.36	0.28	0.00
Other backward caste(1/0)	0.50	0.54	0.22	0.44	0.41	0.37	0.51	0.63	0.00
General Caste (1/0)	0.14	0.13	0.78	0.07	0.09	0.17	0.07	0.03	0.00
Nomadic Tribe (1/0)	0.09	0.08	0.64	0.13	0.12	0.33	0.03	0.05	0.04
age 0-5 years (1/0)	0.11	0.11	0.82	0.12	0.11	0.19	0.15	0.16	0.28
age 5-18 years (1/0)	0.35	0.35	0.74	0.37	0.37	0.97	0.35	0.35	0.55
age 50 years and older (1/0)s	0.14	0.14	0.65	0.16	0.16	0.64	0.13	0.13	0.64
reporting excellent or good health (1/0)	0.60	0.61	0.46	0.59	0.60	0.16	0.48	0.50	0.16
number of acute illness in last 30 days	1.35	1.37	0.85	1.18	1.10	0.21	1.12	1.00	0.02
self employed agriculture (1/0)	0.23	0.19	0.00	0.07	0.07	0.56	0.08	0.07	0.63
self employed business (1/0)	0.03	0.03	0.80	0.04	0.06	0.02	0.06	0.06	0.81
not working (1/0)	0.46	0.49	0.03	0.55	0.53	0.07	0.53	0.53	0.88
Salaried worker (1/0)	0.02	0.02	0.52	0.02	0.03	0.14	0.01	0.01	0.54
occasional salary (1/0)	0.05	0.05	0.38	0.11	0.11	0.89	0.12	0.12	0.81
number of chronic illness in last 30 days	0.73	0.84	0.07	1.44	1.31	0.04	0.71	0.80	0.09
inpatient facility within 30 min (1/0)	0.15	0.24	0.00	0.58	0.55	0.31	0.75	0.75	0.83
outpatient facility within 15 min (1/0)	0.38	0.45	0.01	0.52	0.51	0.77	0.56	0.69	0.00
pharmacy within 15 min (1/0)	0.36	0.45	0.00	0.52	0.51	0.77	0.53	0.63	0.00
minimum time to a health facility (minutes)	23.21	20.41	0.04	16.82	15.88	0.10	14.58	12.36	0.00
not got care when needed (1/0)	0.17	0.16	0.76	0.22	0.23	0.59	0.18	0.19	0.69

A simple random draw is used to draw 3 equally sized groups of clusters.
^† Information on asset ownership and housing characteristics were combined to estimate a wealth index using principal component analysis and divide the population in wealth thirds[39]

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