Inequity in the use of physician services in Norway before and after introducing patient lists in primary care

Table 4 Probability of private specialist visit partial effects after probit

	2000		2005
	dF/dx	P >\|z\|	dF/dx	P >\|z\|
self-assessed health good	0.0419	0.006	0.0665	0.000
self-assessed health fair	0.1053	0.000	0.1859	0.000
self-assessed health poor or very poor	0.2501	0.000	0.2556	0.000
male, age 30-44	-0.0172	0.547	-0.0055	0.846
male, age 45-59	0.0394	0.224	-0.0063	0.834
male, age 60-69	0.1202	0.006	0.0334	0.385
female, age 16-29	0.0876	0.003	0.0149	0.586
female, age 30-44	0.0954	0.002	0.0324	0.270
female, age 45-59	0.0913	0.007	0.1029	0.002
female, age 60-69	0.0687	0.122	0.0968	0.022
disabled*	-0.0003	0.990	0.0200	0.457
student, military*	-0.0125	0.662	0.0359	0.214
Part time*	0.0244	0.202	-0.0014	0.947
inactive*	0.0124	0.606	-0.0072	0.769
completed <3 years upper secondary	0.0528	0.016	0.0143	0.543
completed 3 years upper secondary	0.0679	0.005	0.0311	0.211
completed > 3 years upper secondary	0.0552	0.023	0.0454	0.080
missing data on education	-0.0670	0.360	0.0037	0.925
region2*	-0.0262	0.143	-0.0141	0.444
region3*	-0.0364	0.072	-0.0201	0.355
region4*	-0.0165	0.406	-0.0014	0.944
region5*	-0.0629	0.006	-0.0487	0.048
region6*	-0.0332	0.149	-0.0570	0.013
population 2000-20000 individuals	-0.0267	0.079	-0.0138	0.392
population <2000 individuals	-0.0543	0.000	-0.0269	0.097
married*	0.0141	0.484	-0.0114	0.579
cohabiting*	-0.0036	0.875	-0.0040	0.847
divorced*	0.0440	0.165	-0.0172	0.555
widow_er*	0.0466	0.352	-0.0512	0.234
born_europe*	0.0024	0.943	-0.0195	0.525
born_other*	-0.0482	0.206	0.0272	0.455
Income	0.0288	0.073	0.0071	0.527
observed probability	0.164		0.157
predicted probability	0.151		0.146
N	3371		3002
Pseudo-R2	0.053		0.051
Log likelihood	-1427.1		-1238.4

Contributions that are statistically significant at 5%-level are in bold. Bootstrapped standard errors.

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