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. 2014 Dec 20;4:36. doi: 10.1186/s13561-014-0036-0

Table 3.

Regression results for the total amount of OOP payments

Probit SSM 11 , OLS 2 PM 12 , OLS
Variables OOP payments >0 Total OOP payments Total OOP payments
Age 50-591 −0.10 −0.20* −0.23**
(0.118) (0.102) (0.094)
Age 60-69 0.00 −0.06 −0.06
(0.118) (0.092) (0.087)
Age 70-79 0.06 −0.04 −0.02
(0.130) (0.097) (0.092)
Men2 −0.14** 0.01 −0.03
(0.062) (0.062) (0.048)
1. Quintile3 −0.23** −0.35*** −0.40***
(0.104) (0.112) (0.092)
2. Quintile −0.08 −0.26** −0.28**
(0.104) (0.102) (0.093)
3. Quintile 0.17 −0.28** −0.23**
(0.110) (0.104) (0.093)
4. Quintile 0.01 −0.13 −0.12
(0.102) (0.119) (0.116)
1-2 chronic diseases4 0.61*** 0.37* 0.56***
(0.069) (0.195) (0.060)
≥3 chronic diseases 0.67*** 0.76*** 0.97***
(0.104) (0.216) (0.079)
1-2 acute health problems5 0.13* −0.05 −0.02
(0.065) (0.065) (0.054)
≥3 acute health problems −0.08 −0.15 −0.17
(0.096) (0.072) (0.067)
Depressive Symptoms6 0.17* 0.17** 0.21***
(0.076) (0.068) (0.055)
ADL7 0.08 0.60*** 0.62***
(0.132) (0.090) (0.084)
SAH < good8 0.24** 0.30*** 0.36***
(0.077) (0.081) (0.055)
Low education9 −0.04 −0.25** −0.26***
(0.104) (0.085) (0.080)
Intermediate education 0.02 −0.21*** −0.20***
(0.071) (0.061) (0.058)
SHI10 0.76*** −0.76** −0.51***
(0.084) (0.262) (0.088)
Constant −0.00 5.38*** 4.79***
(0.195) (0.583) (0.164)
N 2851 2851 2498
Pseudo R2 0.132
Likelihood Ratio Chi2 357.93
Prob > chi2 0.000
Wald chi2(18) 505.21
Prob > chi2 0.000
Adj. R2 0.220
F (18, 2832) 38.02
Prob > F 0.000

Reference categories: 1Age > 80 2Women 35. Quintile 4no chronic diseases 5no acute health problems 6no depressive symptoms 7no limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) 8self-assessed health (SAH) ≥ good 9high education 10privately insured 11Sample-Selection Model 12Two-Part Model.

Standard errors in parentheses.

***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1.