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. 2015 Oct 3;15:450. doi: 10.1186/s12913-015-1102-y

Table 3.

Non-spatial and spatial Tobit models

Tobit Spatial Tobit Spatial Tobit
N = 5 N = 10
Mean Income ($10,000)d 0.078c 0.084b 0.069a
(0.026) (0.035) (0.038)
Labour Force Participation Rate (%) 0.027c 0.034c 0.034c
(0.008) (0.009) (0.009)
Neighbouring Labour Force Participation Rate (%) −0.037c −0.037b
(0.014) (0.017)
Mortality Rate (%) 0.034 0.014 0.010
(0.026) (0.028) (0.028)
Neighbouring Mortality Rate (%) 0.015 0.011
(0.053) (0.068)
ARIA scored −0.085c −0.061b −0.067b
(0.017) (0.025) (0.029)
Hospitals (count) 0.380c 0.377c 0.385c
(0.046) (0.046) (0.046)
Neighbouring Hospitals (count) −0.015 −0.116
(0.106) (0.144)
Private Schools (count) 0.094c 0.075c 0.072c
(0.020) (0.021) (0.021)
Neighbouring Private Schools (count) 0.091b 0.146c
(0.039) (0.047)
Indigenous (%) 0.023c 0.012a 0.011
(0.007) (0.007) (0.007)
Neighbouring Indigenous (%) 0.012 0.026
(0.013) (0.016)
Female (% of population) 0.075c 0.057c 0.063c
(0.017) (0.019) (0.018)
Neighbouring Female (% of population) 0.047 0.020
(0.032) (0.039)
Proportion over 65 (% of population) 0.019a 0.054c 0.051c
(0.011) (0.013) (0.013)
Neighbouring Proportion over 65 (% of population) −0.086c −0.082c
(0.020) (0.023)
Proportion under 14 (% of population) −0.093c −0.071c −0.076c
(0.009) (0.013) (0.013)
Neighbouring Proportion under 14 (% of population) −0.031a −0.031a
(0.017) (0.018)
Constant −4.230c −2.271 −1.572
(1.039) (1.880) (2.387)
Log likelihood −2872.085 −2852.798 −2852.942
Link-test hat-squared −0.221c −0.250c −0.249c
(0.033) (0.032) (0.032)
Moran’s I 0.029c 0.049c
z-score 2.349 5.450
Observations 2032 2032 2032

Variable coefficients with standard errors in parentheses

asignificant at the 10% level; bsignificant at the 5% level; csignificant at the 1% level

dmeasured at the regional level for the spatial models (Eq. 3)