Table 3.

Coefficients for Predictors of the Natural Log of Preventive Oral Health Care Visits in the Seattle–Bellevue–Everett PMSA and Spokane MSA for the 60 Months Starting January 2000

(1)		(2)
Seattle–Bellevue–Everett PMSA		Spokane MSA
Predicted Value of Ln(dependent variable)		Predicted Value of Ln(dependent variable)
Moving average at lag 1	−0.2965*	Autoregression at lag 10	−0.4310*
	(0.1323)		(0.2220)
Moving average at lag 12	−0.6331***	Autoregression at lag 12	0.5673***
	(0.1312)		(0.1070)
Ln(nonpreventive visits)	0.4940***	Ln(nonpreventive visits)	−0.0055
	(0.0417)		(0.1203)
Ln(preventive visits in comparison community†)	0.5782***	Ln(preventive visits in comparison community†)	0.8722***
	(0.0495)		(0.1055)
Providers in network‡	−0.0002	Providers in network‡	0.0012
	(0.0005)		(0.0023)
Average daily temperature	−0.0007*	Average daily temperature	0.0001
	(0.0004)		(0.0004)
Initial unemployment insurance claims (10,000s)	−0.0114	Initial unemployment insurance claims (10,000s)	−0.2724***
	(0.0079)		(0.1070)
Lag 1	−0.0193**	Lag 1	−0.1509*
	(0.0087)		(0.0874)
Lag 2	−0.0222***	Lag 2	−0.1419*
	(0.0084)		(0.0784)
Lag 3	−0.0096	Lag 3	0.0740
	(0.0093)		(0.0834)
Lag 4	−0.0015	Lag 4	−0.2033***
	(0.0076)		(0.0807)

Numbers in parentheses are standard errors.

^*p<.10, two-tailed test,

^**p<.05, two-tailed test,

^***p<.01, two-tailed test.

^†Comparison community for the Seattle–Bellevue–Everett PMSA is the Spokane MSA and vice versa.

^‡Provider network data were differenced to account for the strong upward trend over time.

MSA, Metropolitan Statistical Area; PMSA, Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area.