Table 3 The impoverishing effect of OOP health spending by region, residential area, and gender in Ethiopia, 2010/11
From: Assessing medical impoverishment and associated factors in health care in Ethiopia
| Â | Poverty headcount | Normalised gap | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre | Post | Absolute difference | Pre | Post | Absolute difference | |
By region | ||||||
 Tigray | 37.30% | 37.69% | 0.39% | 9.79% | 10.20% | 0.41% |
 Afar | 40.93% | 41.51% | 0.58% | 10.40% | 10.98% | 0.58% |
 Amhara | 48.14% | 49.39% | 1.25% | 14.47% | 14.97% | 0.50% |
 Oromia | 43.48% | 44.58% | 1.10% | 12.61% | 13.29% | 0.68% |
 Somali | 43.74% | 45.10% | 1.36% | 11.18% | 11.56% | 0.38% |
 Benishangul-Gumuz | 42.33% | 43.45% | 1.12% | 11.98% | 12.54% | 0.56% |
 SNNP | 54.92% | 56.59% | 1.66% | 17.26% | 17.97% | 0.71% |
 Gambella | 37.46% | 38.54% | 1.08% | 9.86% | 10.25% | 0.39% |
 Harari | 12.31% | 14.66% | 2.35% | 1.98% | 2.20% | 0.22% |
 Addis Ababa | 11.49% | 11.84% | 0.35% | 2.62% | 2.87% | 0.25% |
 Dire Dawa | 24.85% | 25.66% | 0.81% | 3.66% | 3.83% | 0.17% |
By residential area | ||||||
 Urban | 14.99% | 15.59% | 0.60% | 3.37% | 3.58% | 0.21% |
 Rural | 51.59% | 52.90% | 1.31% | 15.48% | 16.17% | 0.69% |
By gender | ||||||
 Male | 46.54% | 47.70% | 1.16% | 13.78% | 14.40% | 0.62% |
 Female | 38.70% | 40.01% | 1.31% | 11.36% | 11.89% | 0.53% |