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Table 4 Estimates of multinomial logit and probit models

From: Horizontal equity in access to public GP services by socioeconomic group: potential bias due to a compartmentalised approach

Public GP equationa

Multinomial logit

Multinomial probit

Coefficient (se)

p-value

Coefficient (se)

p-value

Female

0.1642 (0.0343)

0.000

0.1396 (0.0271)

0.000

Age 15–34

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Age 35–44

−0.066 (0.0659)

0.317

−0.0469 (0.0501)

0.349

Age 45–54

− 0.0554 (0.0649)

0.393

−0.041 (0.0497)

0.410

Age 55–64

0.0934 (0.0637)

0.143

0.0737 (0.0495)

0.137

Age more than 64

0.2698 (0.0681)

0.000

0.2199 (0.0535)

0.000

Health very good

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Health good

0.3412 (0.0578)

0.000

0.2677 (0.0429)

0.000

Health fair

1.0196 (0.0646)

0.000

0.8427 (0.0494)

0.000

Health bad

1.5223 (0.082)

0.000

1.2554 (0.0638)

0.000

Health very bad

1.6227 (0.1228)

0.000

1.3361 (0.0966)

0.000

Chronics

0.7419 (0.0489)

0.000

0.5772 (0.0367)

0.000

Inactive

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Employed

−0.2053 (0.0534)

0.000

−0.1642 (0.0419)

0.000

Unemployed

−0.0651 (0.0675)

0.335

−0.0579 (0.0534)

0.278

Primary studies or less

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Obligatory Secondary studies

−0.0032 (0.0474)

0.946

−0.0026 (0.0382)

0.946

Occupational training or pre-university studies

−0.0502 (0.0563)

0.372

−0.0334 (0.0446)

0.453

University studies

−0.0406 (0.0685)

0.553

−0.0053 (0.0532)

0.920

High social class (SC)

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Medium-high SC

0.1636 (0.0599)

0.006

0.1053 (0.0456)

0.021

Medium-low SC

0.2884 (0.0623)

0.000

0.2012 (0.0479)

0.000

Low social class

0.3396 (0.0709)

0.000

0.2446 (0.0553)

0.000

Intercept

−2.3676 (0.0991)

0.000

−1.8932 (0.0754)

0.000

Pseudo R2

0.0895

 

N

22,450

22,450

  1. a Not visiting any health services as reference. This table only shows the coefficients corresponding to the public general practitioner (GP) equation. Private GP, public and private specialist equations are shown in an Appendix