Table 5.

Summary statistics for health conditions variables by insurance status

	Insured	Uninsured	Difference	Percentage difference	All
	86.68	13.32			100.00
Number of diagnoses	6.661 (4.906)	7.068 (4.778)	0.407*** (0.115)	06.11%	6.715 (4.891)
Number of chronic conditions	2.740 (2.931)	3.078 (2.642)	0.338*** (0.0622)	12.33%	2.785 (2.897)
Severity of illness	1.775 (0.857)	1.901 (0.868)	0.126*** (0.0166)	07.10%	1.792 (0.860)
Risk of mortality	1.353 (0.727)	1.417 (0.777)	0.0640*** (0.0118)	04.73%	1.361 (0.734)
Died in hospital	0.0099 (0.099)	0.0140 (0.117)	0.00416*** (0.000858)	41.41%	0.0104 (0.101)
Emergency department	0.353 (0.478)	0.675 (0.469)	0.321*** (0.0109)	91.22%	0.396 (0.489)

The numbers in the table indicate the mean and the standard deviation in parenthesis. The test refers to the difference in means between the insured and the uninsured

***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1