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Table 2 Variables from the 2006 Satisfaction and Out-of-Pocket Payment Survey

From: Equity in health care utilization in Chile

Variable

Measurement scale

Definition

Health care

Nominal/Discrete

Health care visits: 0 = no, 1 = yes

Age

Interval/Discrete

Age in years at the time of the survey (18 to 98)

Gender

Nominal/Discrete

Gender: 0 = male and 1 = female

Civil status

Nominal/Discrete

Civil status: married, living in-partner, annulled/separated/divorce, widowed, and single

School

Ordinal/Discrete

Last level of study approved: no education, elementary school, high school, technical-professional school, technical training center, professional institute, university

Region

Nominal/Discrete

II region, V region, VIII region or XIII region

Work status

Nominal/Discrete

Did you work last week? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Chronic Disease

Nominal/Discrete

Do you have a chronic disease? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Accident

Nominal/Discrete

Did you have an accident? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Housing

Nominal/Discrete

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

House

Nominal/Discrete

Residential status? 1 = own, 2 = rent, 3 = transfer

Ln(income)

Interval/Continuous

Individuals level of income (0 to 15.90)

Insurance

Nominal/Discrete

Type of insurance system: Indigent card, Fonasa, Isapre, Capredena, Dipreca, other system, no insurance

Beneficiaries

Interval/Discrete

Number of people who can use the insurance coverage

Dependent

Nominal/Discrete

Are you a dependent worker whose employer automatically deducts the payment for health insurance? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Additional benefits

Nominal/Discrete

Do you pay more than the required 7 % of your taxable salary for health insurance? 1 = yes, 2 = no, 3 = does not apply

Additional insurance

Nominal/Discrete

Do you have additional insurance? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Emergency insurance

Nominal/Discrete

Do you have emergency insurance? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Debt

Nominal/Discrete

During the past year have you had to borrow money to pay health care costs? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Work insurance

Nominal/Discrete

Are you receiving welfare or social security? 0 = no, 1 = yes

Number of people in the household

Interval/Discrete

Total number of people in the household (1 to 18)

Ln(OOP)

Interval/Continuous

Natural logarithm of out-of-pocket payment (0 to 13.31)

Health care satisfaction

Ordinal/Discrete

Overall health care satisfaction? 1 = very satisfied/satisfied, 2 = indifferent, 3 = very dissatisfied/dissatisfied, 4 = no answer

AUGE

Nominal/Discrete

Was your health problem covered by AUGE? 1 = No AUGE pathology, 2 = AUGE pathology, 3 = do not know, 4 = no answer