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. 2011 Jun 15;10:25. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-25

Table 5.

Change in inequality 2000-2005 in the probability of a private specialist visit, Oaxaca-type decomposition a)

Equation (5) Equation (6)
changeCI*el change_el*CI changeCI*el change_el*CI total change CI
self-assessed health good -0.0059 0.0007 -0.0041 -0.0012 -0.0052
self-assessed health fair -0.0017 -0.0017 -0.0012 -0.0022 -0.0034
self-assessed health poor or very poor -0.0022 -0.0005 -0.0021 -0.0006 -0.0027
male, age 30-44 0.0000 0.0003 0.0001 0.0003 0.0003
male, age 45-59 0.0002 -0.0094 -0.0014 -0.0078 -0.0092
male, age 60-69 0.0018 -0.0003 0.0052 -0.0036 0.0016
female, age 16-29 -0.0011 0.0096 -0.0060 0.0145 0.0085
female, age 30-44 0.0004 0.0037 0.0011 0.0030 0.0041
female, age 45-59 -0.0015 0.0017 -0.0014 0.0015 0.0002
female, age 60-69 0.0112 -0.0043 0.0067 0.0002 0.0069
disabled 0.0004 -0.0022 0.0000 -0.0018 -0.0018
student or doing military service -0.0016 -0.0088 0.0004 -0.0108 -0.0104
part-time 0.0000 0.0035 -0.0001 0.0036 0.0035
inactive -0.0006 0.0037 0.0009 0.0022 0.0031
completed <3 years upper secondary 0.0000 0.0061 0.0001 0.0060 0.0061
completed 3 years upper secondary -0.0017 -0.0003 -0.0031 0.0011 -0.0020
completed > 3 years upper secondary 0.0004 -0.0022 0.0005 -0.0023 -0.0018
missing data on education -0.0005 0.0007 0.0009 -0.0007 0.0002
region 2 -0.0003 -0.0004 -0.0004 -0.0002 -0.0007
region 3 -0.0017 -0.0007 -0.0033 0.0009 -0.0025
region 4 0.0000 -0.0007 0.0001 -0.0008 -0.0006
region 5 0.0002 -0.0008 0.0003 -0.0008 -0.0006
region 6 0.0001 0.0012 0.0000 0.0012 0.0013
population 2000-20000 individuals -0.0002 0.0007 -0.0003 0.0009 0.0005
population <2000 individuals -0.0020 -0.0046 -0.0041 -0.0025 -0.0066
married -0.0021 -0.0074 0.0029 -0.0124 -0.0096
cohabitating 0.0003 -0.0002 0.0002 -0.0001 0.0001
divorced 0.0004 0.0038 -0.0010 0.0052 0.0042
widow/widower -0.0011 0.0046 0.0009 0.0026 0.0036
born_europe 0.0003 0.0001 0.0000 0.0004 0.0004
b_other 0.0004 -0.0041 -0.0005 -0.0032 -0.0037
Income 0.0018 -0.0315 0.0067 -0.0364 -0.0297
residual 0.0214
% of change 25% 164% 8% 180%
total change in CI -0.0243

a) The table shows contributions to change in CI index, which are attributed to changes in the elasticity or concentration index of each covariate.