. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 19.

Published in final edited form as: J R Stat Soc Ser A Stat Soc. 2011 Jul;174(3):639–664. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00706.x

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of GP and specialist visits by country

Country	Results for GP visits					Results for specialist visits
Country	Mean	Standard deviation	P (visits > 0)^†	Mean\|visits > 0^‡	Maximum	Mean	Standard deviation	P (visits > 0)	Mean\|visits > 0	Maximum
Belgium	5.011	5.613	0.887	5.650	53	2.215	4.833	0.544	4.069	54
France	4.886	4.573	0.891	5.482	50	1.551	2.865	0.468	3.312	34
Germany	4.154	4.820	0.870	4.776	49	2.667	5.013	0.575	4.639	60
Greece	3.043	4.571	0.605	5.028	36	1.944	5.407	0.390	4.984	73
Italy	6.662	10.756	0.811	8.214	98	1.446	3.070	0.406	3.565	30
Netherlands	2.145	2.431	0.767	2.797	24	1.573	4.844	0.405	3.884	89
Spain	6.246	9.484	0.845	7.389	90	1.942	6.055	0.440	4.418	98
Sweden	1.655	2.274	0.650	2.547	26	0.971	2.901	0.316	3.075	40
Total	4.211	6.155	0.794	5.307	98	1.805	4.519	0.447	4.034	98

^†

Proportion with any visit.

^‡

Mean visits among those with any visit.