Variable | Measurement scale | Definition |
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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 |