Trends in horizontal inequity in access to public health care services by immigrant condition in Spain (2006–2017)

Table 2 Descriptive stats by type of immigration for the pooled sample

Type var.	Variable	Economic Immigrants Mean (SD)	Native Spanish Mean (SD)	Non-Econ Immigrants Mean (SD)	p-value*
Demographic variables	Female	0.5675	0.5671	0.5591	0.956
	Age 16–25	0.1416	0.0743	0.0796	< 0.001
	Age 26–35	0.2950	0.1245	0.1609
	Age 36–45	0.2880	0.1834	0.2506
	Age 46–55	0.1630	0.1704	0.1769
	Age 56–65	0.0712	0.1578	0.1526
	Age 66–75	0.0240	0.1459	0.1123
	Age76–85	0.0144	0.1122	0.0545
	Age more than 85	0.0027	0.0316	0.0126
	Living in pair	0.5607	0.5873	0.6086	< 0.001
Health state variables	Health bad-very bad	0.0519	0.1038	0.0595	< 0.001
	Health fair	0.2145	0.2548	0.1869
	Health good	0.5007	0.4856	0.5013
	Health very good	0.2329	0.1558	0.2523
	Hypertension	0.1195	0.2715	0.1820	< 0.001
	Stroke	0.0081	0.0250	0.0168	< 0.001
	Heart	0.0282	0.0804	0.0553	< 0.001
	Diabetes	0.0360	0.0905	0.0386	< 0.001
	Cholesterol	0.1034	0.2202	0.1584	< 0.001
	Tumor	0.0150	0.0408	0.0302	< 0.001
	Mental	0.0854	0.1614	0.1014	< 0.001
	Rest chronics	1.1528 (1.7448)	2.0701 (2.3641)	1.4317 (1.9875)	< 0.001
	Limitation 2 weeks	0.1348	0.1458	0.1199	0.029
	Accidents 12 months	0.0506	0.0670	0.0478	< 0.001
	GHQ12	1.5107 (2.4806)	1.5676 (2.7310)	1.2142 (2.3649)	0.027
Socioeconomic variables	No studies	0.0815	0.1413	0.0331	< 0.001
	Primary studies	0.1571	0.2441	0.1196
	Secondary studies	0.6103	0.4551	0.5496
	University studies	0.1511	0.1595	0.2977
	Low social class	0.2940	0.1329	0.0843	< 0.001
	Medium-low SC	0.5052	0.4525	0.3635
	Medium-high SC	0.1054	0.2250	0.2274
	High social class	0.0955	0.1896	0.3248
	Employed	0.5927	0.4213	0.4954	< 0.001
	Unemployed	0.1787	0.0883	0.0947
	Retired	0.0441	0.2920	0.2506
	Inactive	0.1850	0.1992	0.1601
Other	Small municipality	0.4344	0.5273	0.5658	< 0.001

* Comparison Economic Immigrants vs. Native Spanish. Chi-square test for categorical variables and U-Mann Whitney test for continuous variables

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