Table 1.

Public health facility and socioeconomic characteristics by region, Indonesia, 1993 and 1997.

Characteristics	Java Bali		Outer Java Bali
	1993	1997	1993	1997
Panel A. Facility quality
Prenatal care
Quality scores (raw 1–100)	54.97	48.65***	49.30	37.29***
Standardized scores (SD)	0.34	0.00***	0.03	−0.62***
% of facilities that offer care	94.9	95.3	89.1	91.9
Child curative care
Quality scores (raw 1–100)	65.96	61.24***	64.70	52.82***
Standardized scores (SD)	0.17	−0.06***	0.11	−0.49***
% of facilities that offer care	98.0	98.6	97.3	97.0
Panel B. Facility staffing
Health centers
No MD available (%)	3.35	2.96	8.22	11.77
Number of MDs	1.39	1.54***	1.24	1.06***
Number of nurses	4.75	4.42**	5.51	5.84
Number of midwives	3.30	2.79***	2.72	3.21***
Auxiliary health centers
Number of nurses	1.03	0.95	1.10	1.15
Number of midwives	0.76	0.63**	0.60	0.60
Total number of public facilities	612	606	380	309
Panel C. Facility structural quality and socioeconomics
Electricity available (%)	84.01	93.71***	66.48	87.48***
Microscope available (%)	50.96	50.94	38.13	50.22***
Community infrastructure index	36.72	41.99***	25.92	32.94***

Notes: Outer Java Bali is the more remote region defined as provinces in Sumatra, Kalimantan, and the Eastern Islands. The community infrastructure index is measured as the proportion of communities with a formal market, public telephone, post office, predominantly piped drinking water, sewage waste disposal system, and garbage disposal system. Frequencies adjusted for sampling design.

^**p ≤ 0.05.

^***p ≤ 0.01.