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Table 5 OLS estimations for primary and specialist services, controlling for region-specific time effects

From: Waiting times in healthcare: equal treatment for equal need?

Waiting times

Primary care

Specialist care

Education

  No qualifications

Ref

  Primary studies

-0.005

-0.085

(0.022)

(0.055)

  Secondary studies

-0.006

-0.157***

(0.023)

(0.040)

  University studies

-0.028

-0.179***

(0.021)

(0.046)

Employment status

  Inactive

Ref

  Retirement pensioner

-0.002

0.094

(0.015)

(0.088)

  Unemployed

-0.011

0.134***

(0.017)

(0.045)

  Employed

0.002

0.042

(0.026)

(0.054)

Region fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Year fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Region-Trend

Yes

Yes

Specialist fixed effects

No

Yes

Constant

0.899***

3.640***

(0.037)

(0.068)

Observations

24,935

6,825

R-squared

0.263

0.054

AIC

50829

21493

BIC

50959

21602

  1. 1For primary care, our individual of reference is a male with no studies; inactive; between 18 and 34 years old; no chronic disease; one visit to public GPs; no visit to private GPs; Spanish citizenship; fluent and living in a urban area. For specialist consultations, our individual of reference is a male who has visited Traumatology services; with no studies; inactive; between 18 and 34 years old; with no chronic disease; one visit to public specialist services; no visit to private specialist doctor; Spanish and living in a urban area
  2. 2Full model specification: Only SES variables are reported
  3. 3*** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1