Equity in health care utilization in Chile

Table 5 Distributions of actual need-predicted and need-standardized health care use for year 2006

Probability of using medical care
	Probit with controls			Need-standardized
				With controls		Without controls
Quintile	Actual	Need Predicted	Difference= predicted-actual	Probit	OLS	Probit	OLS
Poorest 20%	0.256	0.330	−0.073	0.229	0.230	0.232	0.232
2^nd poorest 20%	0.276	0.313	0.037	0.265	0.266	0.267	0.267
Middle	0.271	0.297	0.026	0.277	0.276	0.276	0.276
2^nd richest 20%	0.332	0.293	0.040	.342	0.342	0.342	0.342
Richest 20%	0.389	0.281	0.108	0.411	0.410	0.408	0.408
Mean	0.305	0.303	0.002	0.305	0.305	0.305	0.305
Concentration	0.089	0.033		0.121	0.120	0.118	0.117
Index/HI_wv
Standard error	0.013	0.004		0.013	0.013	0.013	0.013
t-ratio	6.644	−8.028		9.469	9.404	9.234	9.219

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