Table 3.

LTC coverage by country

	Number of observations		% of the total N
	Italy	Spain	Italy (%)	Spain (%)	Difference (%)
Size of the sample (N)	$2181$	$2344$	$100$	$100$	–
LTC coverage
Does not own LTC coverage	$1834$	$1648$	$84.09$	$71.84$	$12.{25}^{\ast \ast \ast }$
Owns LTC coverage	$347$	$660$	$15.91$	$28.16$	$12.{25}^{\ast \ast \ast }$
Type of LTC coverage
Public	$313$	$596$	$14.35$	$25.43$	$-11.{08}^{\ast \ast \ast }$
Private mandatory insurance	$6$	$20$	$0.28$	$0.85$	$-0.{58}^{\ast \ast \ast }$
Private voluntary insurance	$31$	$65$	$1.42$	$2.77$	$-1.{35}^{\ast \ast \ast }$

The significance levels of the two-tailed Welch’s t-test for difference in means are coded as follows: *significance at 10% level, **significance at 5% level, ***significance at 1% level