In this study, we use the information on expenditure collected in the form of disaggregated components of maternity care from newly delivered mothers in a hospital setting and covers a wide range of demand and supply side factors determining the expenditure.
Nevertheless, to our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive crosscountry data-set on CBO funding and expenditure collected at the community level using a consistent methodology.
Tranchant (2008) looks at fiscal decentralization, which is captured by the share of subnational expenditures in general government spending collected by the International Monetary Fund.
Last year $4.2 million in fees and expenditures was collected by the county, cities and towns, police departments, homeowners and businesses.
It also points out that some of the most expensive tax expenditures are collected by tens of millions of lower- and middle-class Americans who receive tax breaks on home mortgage interest, employer-provided health care plans, 401 k)'s and state and local taxes.
During the second and third interviews information related to expenditures was collected with open-ended questions.
Data on demographics, illness conditions, and medical and other expenditures were collected from 12,515 households.
Medical expenditures were collected in a periodical evaluation using the XmR method of SPC techniques.
Detailed information on demographics, socioeconomic status, health status, health care utilization, insurance coverage, and health expenditures was collected for each household member.
All data on expenditures were collected at HH (and not at individual) level, which made us decide to use HH as the unit of analysis.
