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. 2020 Nov 12;19:207. doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01317-x

Table 2.

Contributions to inequality in unmet need for dental care in 2007, 2012 and 2017, and decomposition of total change. Men

2007 2012
Variables Partial effect Elasticity CCI Contribution (1) % Contribution Partial effect Elasticity CCI Contribution (2) % Contribution
age35–64 0.0180* 0.1303 0.0054 0.0007 −2.6% 0.0211* 0.1278 0.0068 0.0009 −1.0%
age65+ − 0.0038 − 0.0079 − 0.0460 0.0004 − 1.3% 0.0040 0.0074 0.0064 0.0000 −0.1%
Spanish − 0.0020 − 0.0264 0.0057 − 0.0001 0.5% − 0.0419*** − 0.4245 0.0169 − 0.0072 8.2%
married 0.0070 0.0568 −0.0038 −0.0002 0.8% 0.0129 0.0833 0.0052 0.0004 −0.5%
separated 0.0381 0.0191 0.0133 0.0003 −0.9% 0.0316* 0.0134 −0.0172 − 0.0002 0.3%
widowed −0.0148 − 0.0056 − 0.0147 0.0001 − 0.3% 0.0445* 0.0134 0.0280 0.0004 −0.4%
chronic 0.0396*** 0.1284 −0.0265 − 0.0034 12.5% 0.0555*** 0.1438 − 0.0163 −0.0023 2.7%
dentxinhab −0.0002 − 0.1447 0.0067 − 0.0010 3.5% 0.0001 0.0881 0.0097 0.0009 −1.0%
lowsec_educ −0.0102 − 0.0372 − 0.0290 0.0011 −4.0% 0.0032 0.0102 −0.0527 − 0.0005 0.6%
uppersec_educ −0.0206** − 0.0668 0.0163 − 0.0011 4.0% − 0.0073 − 0.0188 0.0107 − 0.0002 0.2%
tertiary_educ − 0.0286*** −0.1027 0.0861 −0.0088 32.5% −0.0258*** − 0.0766 0.1185 − 0.0091 10.4%
unemployed 0.0200 0.0171 −0.0894 −0.0015 5.6% 0.0319*** 0.0639 −0.1234 −0.0079 9.0%
inactive −0.0107 −0.0440 − 0.0382 0.0017 −6.2% − 0.0383*** − 0.1328 − 0.0067 0.0009 −1.0%
Ln_eqincome − 0.0085* − 1.1756 0.0097 − 0.0114 41.7% − 0.0325*** −3.5180 0.0138 − 0.0486 55.5%
Residual −0.0038 14.1% −0.0149 17.1%
CCI −0.0272 100.0% −0.0875 100.0%
2017 Total change 2007–2017
Variables Partial effect Elasticity CCI Contribution (3) % Contribution Contribution (3)–(1)
age35–64 0.0084 0.1120 0.0048 0.0005 −0.8% − 0.0002
age65+ −0.0049 − 0.0240 0.0032 − 0.0001 0.1% − 0.0004
Spanish −0.0203** − 0.4576 0.0052 − 0.0024 3.4% − 0.0022
married 0.0008 0.0108 0.0055 0.0001 −0.1% 0.0003
separated 0.0127 0.0146 −0.0064 −0.0001 0.1% −0.0003
widowed −0.0096 −0.0080 0.0034 0.0000 0.0% −0.0001
chronic 0.0413*** 0.2672 −0.0059 −0.0016 2.2% 0.0018
dentxinhab 0.0001 0.1799 0.0036 0.0006 −0.9% 0.0016
lowsec_educ −0.0044 −0.0294 − 0.0294 0.0009 −1.2% − 0.0002
uppersec_educ −0.0130** − 0.0751 0.0039 − 0.0003 0.4% 0.0008
tertiary_educ −0.0263*** −0.1806 0.0536 −0.0097 13.8% −0.0009
unemployed 0.0376*** 0.1049 −0.0688 −0.0072 10.2% −0.0057
inactive −0.0032 −0.0268 − 0.0027 0.0001 − 0.1% −0.0016
Ln_eqincome −0.0157*** −3.6575 0.0065 −0.0238 33.9% − 0.0125
Residual −0.0274 38.9% −0.0236
CCI −0.0704 100.0%

CCI Corrected concentration index; ***Statistically significant at 99% level (p < 0.01); **Statistically significant at 95% level (p < 0.05); *Statistically significant at 90% (p < 0.1)