Table 3.
Inequality decomposition for probability of private specialist visit, 2000 and 2005
| Elasticities a) | Concentration indices | Contributions b) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2005 | 2000 | 2005 | 2000 | 2005 | |
| self-assessed health good | 0.129 | 0.187 | 0.011 | -0.020 | 0.0015 | -0.0037 |
| self-assessed health fair | 0.091 | 0.128 | -0.047 | -0.060 | -0.0043 | -0.0077 |
| self-assessed health poor or very poor | 0.084 | 0.087 | -0.206 | -0.232 | -0.0174 | -0.0201 |
| male, age 30-44 | -0.017 | -0.006 | 0.028 | 0.024 | -0.0005 | -0.0001 |
| male, age 45-59 | 0.033 | -0.006 | 0.243 | 0.201 | 0.0080 | -0.0012 |
| male, age 60-69 | 0.041 | 0.014 | 0.010 | 0.138 | 0.0004 | 0.0020 |
| female, age 16-29 | 0.067 | 0.012 | -0.175 | -0.265 | -0.0117 | -0.0031 |
| female, age 30-44 | 0.101 | 0.032 | -0.054 | -0.043 | -0.0055 | -0.0014 |
| female, age 45-59 | 0.085 | 0.093 | 0.198 | 0.182 | 0.0168 | 0.0169 |
| female, age 60-69 | 0.026 | 0.043 | -0.250 | 0.013 | -0.0064 | 0.0006 |
| disabled | 0.000 | 0.011 | -0.197 | -0.158 | 0.0000 | -0.0018 |
| student/military | -0.005 | 0.021 | -0.342 | -0.421 | 0.0018 | -0.0087 |
| part time | 0.023 | -0.001 | -0.148 | -0.152 | -0.0034 | 0.0002 |
| inactive | 0.008 | -0.005 | -0.289 | -0.171 | -0.0022 | 0.0009 |
| completed <3 years upper secondary | 0.105 | 0.025 | -0.076 | -0.075 | -0.0080 | -0.0019 |
| completed 3 years upper secondary | 0.110 | 0.059 | 0.006 | -0.022 | 0.0007 | -0.0013 |
| completed > 3 years upper secondary | 0.089 | 0.078 | 0.206 | 0.211 | 0.0183 | 0.0165 |
| missing data on education | -0.002 | 0.001 | 0.228 | -0.220 | -0.0004 | -0.0002 |
| region 2 | -0.042 | -0.025 | -0.023 | -0.013 | 0.0010 | 0.0003 |
| region 3 | -0.031 | -0.017 | -0.048 | 0.057 | 0.0015 | -0.0009 |
| region 4 | -0.018 | -0.002 | -0.041 | -0.048 | 0.0007 | 0.0001 |
| region 5 | -0.037 | -0.028 | -0.081 | -0.088 | 0.0030 | 0.0024 |
| region 6 | -0.021 | -0.038 | -0.073 | -0.075 | 0.0015 | 0.0028 |
| population 2000-20000 individuals | -0.041 | -0.022 | 0.036 | 0.045 | -0.0015 | -0.0010 |
| population <2000 individuals | -0.104 | -0.050 | -0.086 | -0.046 | 0.0089 | 0.0023 |
| married | 0.045 | -0.034 | 0.095 | 0.158 | 0.0042 | -0.0053 |
| cohabiting | -0.003 | -0.005 | 0.095 | 0.041 | -0.0003 | -0.0002 |
| divorced | 0.018 | -0.008 | -0.148 | -0.203 | -0.0027 | 0.0015 |
| widow/widower | 0.006 | -0.007 | -0.334 | -0.191 | -0.0021 | 0.0014 |
| born_europe | 0.000 | -0.006 | -0.015 | -0.058 | 0.0000 | 0.0003 |
| born_other | -0.007 | 0.006 | -0.306 | -0.239 | 0.0022 | -0.0015 |
| income | 2.135 | 0.562 | 0.020 | 0.023 | 0.0427 | 0.0130 |
| residual | 0.0074 | 0.0288 | ||||
| CI, unstandardised | 0.0543 | 0.0300 | ||||
a) Elasticities are based on marginal effects from probit estimations, see Table 4.
b) Contributions that are statistically significant at 5%-level are in bold. Bootstrapped standard errors.