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Table 1 Variables selected for this study from the National Socioeconomic Survey (CASEN, 19922009)

From: Equity in health care utilization in Chile

Variable

Measurement scale

Definition

Health care use

Nominal/Discrete

Health care use: 1 = yes; 0 = no

Region

Nominal/Discrete

Live in a different region than the metropolitan region (1 to 13)

Number_house

Ratio/Discrete

Number of people in the family (0 to 10)

Gender

Nominal/Discrete

Gender: 0 = male and 1 = female

Age

Interval/Discrete

Age in years at the time of the survey (0 to 110)

Married

Nominal/Discrete

Married marital status: 1 = yes, 0 = no

Electricity

Nominal/Discrete

Availability of electricity: 1 = yes; 0 = no

Water

Nominal/Discrete

Availability of water: 1 = yes; 0 = no

Disposal

Nominal/Discrete

Availability of waste disposal: 1 = yes; 0 = no

Housing

Nominal/Discrete

Type of housing: 1 = house, 2 = apartment, 3 = tenement, 4 = hut/shack, 5 = other, 6 = room

House

Nominal/Discrete

Residential status? 1 = own, 2 = rent, 3 = transfer, 4 = illegal occupation, 5 = other

Education

Nominal/Discrete

Ever attending or currently attending to school?: 0 = no, 1 = yes

Insurance

Nominal/Discrete

Do you belong to an insurance system? 1 = public system (indigent, group a) 2 = public system (group b), 3 = public system (group c), 4 = public system (group d), 5 = public system (do not know the group), 6 = armed forces, 7 = Isapres, 8 = private, 9 = other system,

Hours

Ratio/Discrete

Working hours per week

Ln(income)

Ratio/Continuous

Natural logarithm of income

NHC

Ratio/Discrete

Number of health care visits

Pay

Nominal/Discrete

Out-of-pocket health care payment: pay, sometimes pay, other type of payment, do not pay

Prevcare

Ratio/Discrete

Number of preventive care visits (0 to 90)

Attention

Ratio/Discrete

Number of doctor’s office visits (0 to 90)

Specialty

Ratio/Discrete

Number of specialty visits (0 to 90)

Emergency

Ratio/Discrete

Number of emergency visits (0 to 40)

Ethnicity

Nominal/Discrete

0 = none, 1 = aymara, 2 = rapa-nui, 3 = quechua, 4 = mapuche, 5 = atacameno, 6 = coya, 7 = kawaskar, 8 = yagan, 9 = no data

Health status

Ordinal/Discrete

Health status? 1 = very good/good, 2 = regular, 3 = very bad/bad, 4 = no answer

AUGE

Nominal/Discrete

Was the care you received covered by AUGE? 1 = yes; o = no