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Table 4 Cumulative shares of disabilities in South Africa (2008)

From: Socioeconomic-related health inequality in South Africa: evidence from General Household Surveys

Quintiles of SES

Sight

Hearing

Speech

Physical

Intellectual

Emotional

Poorest 20%

18.9%

26.6%

25.1%

28.5%

24.0%

18.5%

Poorest 40%

46.4%

49.3%

52.8%

53.1%

46.9%

45.5%

Poorest 60%

70.5%

70.7%

70.5%

70.4%

67.0%

66.3%

Poorest 80%

95.6% -

91.6% -

88.8% -

95.0% -

89.0%

92.0%

Standardized concentration index

0.11*** (0.029)

0.13*** (0.036)

0.11** (0.047)

0.15*** (0.024)

-0.08** (0.033)

-0.09** (0.036)

  1. Note: These are standardized for age-sex variations. Concentration indices are based on
  2. Wagstaff's normalization
  3. Robust standard errors in parentheses
  4. ***, ** significant at 1%, and 5% levels respectively