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. 2015 Oct 20;5:32. doi: 10.1186/s13561-015-0065-3

Table 5.

Estimates of the univariate pooled and dynamic RE panel probit breast cancer model

Univariate pooled probit Univariate RE panel probit
Coeff. Robust SE Coeff. SE
Breast cancer screening one year before (t-1) 0.352*** (0.053) 0.108** (0.049)
Breast cancer screening two years before (t-2) 0.205*** (0.046) -0.018 (0.048)
Breast cancer screening three years before (t-3) 0.985*** (0.047) 0.790*** (0.044)
Cervical cancer screening one year before (t-1) 0.016 (0.041) 0.023 (0.046)
Cervical cancer screening two years before (t-2) -0.056 (0.041) -0.067 (0.046)
Cervical cancer screening three years before (t-3) 0.103*** (0.038) 0.103** (0.044)
Breast cancer screening in 1992 0.092 (0.065)
Breast cancer screening in 1993 0.037 (0.065)
Breast cancer screening in 1994 0.173*** (0.067)
Cervical cancer screening in 1992 0.018 (0.051)
Cervical cancer screening in 1993 0.069 (0.052)
Cervical cancer screening in 1994 0.021 (0.055)
Averaged Total equivalised HH income/100 -0.015 (0.026)
Averaged Living with partner 0.111 (0.135)
Averaged Number of children in household 0.027 (0.065)
Averaged Secondary education (ISCED) -0.586 (0.423)
Averaged Tertiary education (ISCED) -0.483 (0.518)
Averaged employment status part-time or full-time 0.378*** (0.105)
Averaged GP visit during last 12 months 0.409*** (0.142)
Averaged Health status good -0.018 (0.128)
Averaged Health status fair -0.002 (0.151)
Averaged Health status poor 0.189 (0.248)
Averaged Health status very poor -0.334 (0.441)
Averaged status smoker 0.100 (0.141)
Averaged Moved residence within GreatBritain -0.413 (0.383)
Averaged age 0.030*** (0.004)
Total equivalised and deflated HH annual income -0.009 (0.011) 0.004 (0.015)
Living with partner 0.087** (0.044) 0.031 (0.116)
Number of children in household -0.219*** (0.036) -0.141*** (0.049)
Secondary education (ISCED) -0.015 (0.043) 0.624 (0.419)
Tertiary education (ISCED) 0.011 (0.048) 0.561 (0.511)
Employed part-time or full-time -0.128*** (0.041) -0.212*** (0.065)
GP visit during last 12 months 0.250*** (0.048) 0.191*** (0.058)
Health status good 0.087* (0.050) 0.066 (0.063)
Health status fair 0.058 (0.058) 0.011 (0.076)
Health status poor 0.060 (0.077) 0.002 (0.101)
Health status very poor 0.002 (0.133) 0.031 (0.152)
Status smoking -0.133*** (0.051) -0.207* (0.124)
Moved residence within Great Britain -0.029 (0.083) 0.046 (0.093)
Region Scotland 0.001 (0.070) -0.001 (0.088)
Region Wales 0.074 (0.074) 0.156 (0.097)
Ethnic non-white -0.001 (0.118) 0.074 (0.216)
Age between 50 and 64 0.628*** (0.043) 0.634*** (0.046)
Age between 65 and 70 -0.246*** (0.092) -0.687*** (0.094)
Age 71 and older -0.532*** (0.080) -1.154*** (0.099)
Breast screening policy change 0.407*** (0.098) 0.556* (0.105)
Constant -1.681*** (0.086) -3.746*** (0.277)
σα 0.363*** (0.036)

Source: BHPS. Balanced panels consisted for breast cancer screening of 844 women from 11,816 observations. Robust SEs are displayed in parentheses, to account for individual repeated observations in the panel. *p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01