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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2012 Sep 14;32(1):12–21. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.08.007

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics: Post-acute residents (N=874,143)

Mean Std. Dev.
Nonprofit status 0.370 0.483
Age 80.810 7.618
Female 0.654 0.476
White 0.888 0.316
High school graduate 0.366 0.482
More than high school 0.398 0.489
Missing education 0.167 0.373
Married 0.354 0.478
Diabetes 0.270 0.444
Congestive heart failure 0.215 0.411
Hip fracture 0.093 0.291
Alzheimer’s disease 0.052 0.223
Stroke 0.125 0.331
Dementia (non-Alzheimer’s) 0.130 0.336
Manic depression 0.006 0.079
Schizophrenia 0.005 0.073
Emphysema/Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 0.193 0.394
Cancer 0.095 0.294
Shortness of breath 10.445 4.441
Number of medications in last 7 days 1.339 1.605
Cognitive Performance Scale 0.174 0.379
Medicaid eligible 0.203 0.403
Occupancy rate 0.851 0.137
Total number of beds 120.558 80.362
Urban facility 0.826 0.379
Hospital-based facility 0.190 0.393
Chain-owned facility 0.561 0.496
Per capita income in origin zip code 22,345.440 9,214.681
Poverty rate in origin zip code 9.427 6.303
Differential distance in km (nearest nonprofit minus nearest for-profit) 5.587 15.590