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Table 1 Characteristics of key informants

From: Community concepts of poverty: an application to premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme

Indicators/District

Metropolitan

Rural

Semi-urban

Typically farming

Typically fishing

Poverty incidence

27%

26%

63%

29%

47%

Major economic activity

Trading

Farming (cash crop)

Farming(food crop)

Farming (cash crop)

Fishing

Number of households

186

179

161

109

105

Number of key informants

22

18

16

18

18

Characteristics of key informants (%)

Males

17 (77.2)

11 (61.1)

9 (56.3)

7 (38.9)

8 (44.4)

Females

5 (22.7)

7 (38.9)

7 (43.7)

11 (61.1)

10(55.6)

Minimum age

27

32

28

20

25

Maximum age

70

72

62

65

70

Average age

49

51

46

43

42

Education

None

4 (18.2)

2 (11.1)

3 (18.7)

3 (16.6)

8 (44.4)

Primary

2 (9.1)

1 (5.6)

 

5 (27.8)

3(16.7)

Middle/JHS

10 (45.5)

12 (66.6)

13 (81.3)

8 (44.4)

7 (38.9)

Secondary

3 (13.6)

3 (16.6)

 

1 (5.56)

 

Tertiary

3 (13.6)

  

1 (5.56)

 

Main occupation

Fisherman

    

7 (38.9)

Fishmonger

    

4 (22.2)

Farmer

4 (18.2)

15 (83.3)

7 (43.8)

8 (44.4)

1 (5.6)

Trader

4 (18.1)

1 (5.56)

7 (43.8)

8 (44.4)

1 (5.6)

Artisan

6 (27.3)

2 (11.1)

1 (12.5)

1 (5.6)

3 (16.7)

Laborer

2 (9.1)

   

2 (11.1)

Professional

4 (18.2)

  

1 (5.6)

 

unemployed

2 (9.1)

 

1 (6.25)

  

Marital status

Single

1(4.55)

  

1 (5.6)

2 (11.1)

Married

17 (77.27)

16(88.89)

8(50)

12 (66.6)

9 (50.0)

Divorced/separated

3 (13.64)

 

6 (37.5)

2 (11.1)

3 (16.7)

Widow(er)

1 (4.55)

2(11.11)

2 (12.5)

3 (16.6)

4 (22.2)

Religion

Christian

7 (31.8)

18 (100.0)

14 (87.5)

15(83.33)

17 (94.4)

Muslim

14 (63.6)

 

2 (12.5)

3 (16.67)

 

None

1 (4.55)

   

1 (5.6)

Belongs to an association

5(22.73)

5(27.78)

4(25)

4(22.22)

11(61%)