Inequality in opportunity of access to antenatal care in Cameroon: multilevel modelling, spatial analysis and decomposition methods

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 4 Inequality of opportunity in access to antenatal care in Cameroon and Moran's index values by indicator parameter and spatial independence test

Indicator parameter	Estimate	Moran’s I		Standard deviation	P-value
Indicator parameter	Estimate	Observed	Expected	Standard deviation	P-value
\(\overline{P }\)	0.3593	− 0.326	− 0.111	0.059	0.0003
\(\overline{P }\)*		− 0.338	− 0.111	0.060	0.0002
\(D-{\text{index}}\)	0.2397	− 0.215	− 0.111	0.059	0.0791
\(D-{\text{index}}\)*		− 0.147	− 0.111	0.056	0.5270
HOI	0.2732	− 0.215	− 0.111	0.059	0.0791
HOI*		− 0.180	− 0.111	0.057	0.2300

Unstarred values indicate that the Centre and Littoral regions do not include the main towns (Yaoundé and Douala, respectively), while starred values indicate that the results for the Centre and Littoral regions are actually those for the main towns