Table 6. Estimation Results for Adult Working-Age Supplementary Security Income Beneficiaries: New York¹, 1999-2000.

Explanatory Variable	Usual Source of Care	Hospital Stay in Last 12 Months	ER Visit in Last 12 Months	Doctor Visit in Last 3 Months	Unmet Need for Medical Care or Surgery	Rate Overall Quality of Care as Fair or Poor	Rate Ease of Finding a Doctor Who Accepts Medicaid as Fair or Poor
Sample Size	1,785	1,784	1,763	1,774	1,776	1,740	1,425
Predisposing Factors
Age (Continuous)	**0.046	*-0.020	*-0.014	0.016	*-0.039	**-0.029	**-0.026
Female	0.543	0.187	*0.346	0.402	-0.153	-0.414	*-0.500
Black	0.468	0.050	0.329	0.009	-0.109	-0.095	**-0.742
Black	0.468	0.050	0.329	0.009	-0.109	-0.095	**-0.742
Hispanic	0.806	0.249	0.007	0.271	0.171	-0.409	**-1.061
High School Graduate	0.220	0.025	-0.130	-0.004	-0.203	*-0.500	-0.282
Lives Alone	-0.068	0.185	-0.193	0.139	0.312	0.316	0.119
Enabling Factors
Income Less than $10,000	-0.012	0.350	0.225	-0.248	0.196	-0.001	-0.113
Distance to Closest Hospital	0.240	0.186	0.234	-0.010	0.256	0.032	0.033
Need Factors
Mentally III	**-1.153	-0.270	-0.227	-0.220	0.309	0.094	-0.102
MR/DD	-0.459	**-1.139	**-0.729	*0.683	-0.756	-0.502	-0.409
Total Number of ADLs	0.104	*0.142	*0.142	0.171	0.146	0.064	0.006
Total Number of IADLs	-0.005	0.109	0.065	0.041	0.101	0.108	0.007
Fair or Poor Health Status	0.146	**0.741	0.290	0.188	0.689	*0.596	0.429
Other
Proxy Respondent	0.977	-0.021	-0.381	0.141	-0.011	-0.465	-0.483
Westchester County Resident	-0.054	-0.058	-0.073	-0.240	**0.711	0.175	**0.701
Constant	0.216	*-1.465	-0.142	0.377	*-2.103	-0.166	*1.285

^**Significant at the 0.10 level.

^*Significant at the 0.50 level.

¹New York City and Westchester County only.

NOTES: ER is emergency room. MR/DD is mentally retarded/developmentally disabled. ADLs is activities of daily living. IADLs is instrumental activities of daily living.

SOURCE: New York Survey of Working-Age Supplementary Security Income Medicaid Beneficiaries, 1999-2000.