Income inequality and foregone medical care in Europe during The Great Recession: multilevel analyses of EU-SILC surveys 2008–2013

Table 4 Foregone medical care, three-level linear probability models, Others (N = 400,000, 90 country-years, 30 countries)

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3
Fixed effects	Coeff.	SE	Sig	Coeff.	SE	Sig	Coeff.	SE	Sig
Intercept	0.021	0.0038	***	0.021	0.0038	***	0.021	0.0038	***
Women	0.007	0.0015	***	0.007	0.0015	***	0.007	0.0015	***
Age centred	0.000	0.0001	**	0.000	0.0001	**	0.000	0.0001	**
Age centred squared	0.000	0.0000	ns	0.000	0.0000	ns	0.000	0.0000	ns
Low education	0.013	0.0044	**	0.013	0.0044	**	0.013	0.0044	**
High education	−0.006	0.0006	***	−0.006	0.0006	***	−0.006	0.0006	***
Unemployed	0.026	0.0010	***	0.026	0.0010	***	0.026	0.0010	***
Rural area	−0.007	0.0006	***	−0.007	0.0006	***	−0.007	0.0006	***
GDP level (log)	0.007	0.0019	***	0.007	0.0019	***	0.007	0.0019	***
Income inequality level	−0.000	0.0011	ns	−0.000	0.0011	ns	−0.000	0.0011	ns
GDP deviation				0.008	0.0023	***	0.006	0.0024	*
Income ineq. deviation				0.003	0.0031	ns	0.001	0.0031	ns
GDP deviation * income inequality level							0.004	0.0018	*
Random intercept	Variance	95 % conf. interval		Variance	95 % conf. interval		Variance	95 % conf. interval
Individual level	0.0234	0.0233	0.0235	0.0234	0.0233	0.0235	0.0234	0.0233	0.0235
Country-years level	0.0001	0.0000	0.0001	0.0001	0.0000	0.0001	0.0001	0.0000	0.0001
Country level	0.0004	0.0002	0.0006	0.0004	0.0002	0.0006	0.0004	0.0002	0.0006
Random slopes
Women	0.0001	0.0000	0.0001	0.0001	0.0000	0.0001	0.0001	0.0000	0.0001
Age centred	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000
Low education	0.0006	0.0003	0.0009	0.0006	0.0003	0.0009	0.0006	0.0003	0.0009
−2LL	−365,942.31			−365,958.19			−365,963.56

The sample of 400,000 was selected randomly from the original 1,059,155 respondents in the Others samples. SE = standard error. Sig.: *** = p-val < 0.001. ** = p-val < 0.01. * = p-val < 0.05. ns = not significant. Random slopes refer to country level

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