Gender Disparity in Health and Food Expenditure in India among Elderly

Table 5

Decomposition of change in food and health expenditure among the elderly, India, 1999-2000 and 2007-2008.

Background characteristics	Food expenditure			Health expenditure
	Rate	Composition	Interaction	Rate	Composition	Interaction
Age	−0.0100	0.0003	0.0006	−0.0231	0.0006	−0.0012
Sex	−0.0048	0.0002	0.0001	−0.0115	−0.0003	0.0002
Education	−0.0138	0.0041	0.0012	0.0362	−0.0096	0.0034
Caste	0.0049	0.0011	−0.0033	−0.1793	0.016	−0.0152
Marital status	0.0074	0.0003	−0.0004	0.045	−0.0006	0.0022
Total	−0.0163	0.0060	−0.0018	−0.0866	0.0061	−0.0106