Table 3.
Internet use and medical service satisfaction (ordered probit).
| Variable | Dependent variable: MSS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| IU | –0.1503*** | –0.1011*** | –0.1306*** | –0.1364*** |
| (0.0126) | (0.0173) | (0.0174) | (0.0174) | |
| Gender | 0.0313** | 0.0471*** | 0.0489*** | |
| (0.0128) | (0.0128) | (0.0128) | ||
| Age (reference for younger than 31 years old) | ||||
| 30 < Age < 45 | –0.1070*** | –0.1116*** | –0.1315*** | |
| (0.0192) | (0.0192) | (0.0192) | ||
| 44 < Age < 65 | –0.0278 | –0.0390* | –0.0700*** | |
| (0.0200) | (0.0200) | (0.0202) | ||
| 64 < Age | 0.0681** | 0.0435 | 0.0088 | |
| (0.0289) | (0.0290) | (0.0291) | ||
| Education (reference for the illiteracy) | ||||
| Primary school | –0.0531** | –0.0683*** | –0.0713*** | |
| (0.0240) | (0.0241) | (0.0240) | ||
| Junior high school | –0.0938*** | –0.1276*** | –0.1342*** | |
| (0.0242) | (0.0242) | (0.0242) | ||
| Senior high school | –0.1140*** | –0.1657*** | –0.1726*** | |
| (0.0275) | (0.0276) | (0.0276) | ||
| College | –0.0233 | –0.0935*** | –0.1120*** | |
| (0.0311) | (0.0313) | (0.0313) | ||
| Graduate | –0.1837*** | –0.2791*** | –0.2965*** | |
| (0.0692) | (0.0681) | (0.0679) | ||
| Political identity | 0.1889*** | 0.1438*** | 0.1346*** | |
| (0.0217) | (0.0217) | (0.0217) | ||
| Household registration | –0.1424*** | –0.1327*** | –0.1166*** | |
| (0.0139) | (0.0139) | (0.0140) | ||
| Family economic level | 0.1638*** | 0.1596*** | ||
| (0.0073) | (0.0073) | |||
| Medical insurance | 0.2816*** | |||
| (0.0210) | ||||
| Province | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Year | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| N | 28,239 | 28,239 | 28,239 | 28,239 |
Robust standard errors are in parentheses; *, ** and *** denote significance at the 10%, 5% and 1% level, respectively. Data are from the Chinese Social Survey [51] for 2013, 2015 and 2017.