Income inequality and self-rated health status in Colombia

Table 3 Descriptive statistics for Individual-Level Variables

	Weighted Mean and Standard Deviation
Continuous Variables	Weighted means
Household income ($COP 2015)	2,781,907
Household income ($COP 2015)	(420,256)
Per-capita income ($COP 2015)	868,628
Per-capita income ($COP 2015)	(1,572,912)
Equivalised income ($COP 2015)	1,074,374
Equivalised income ($COP 2015)	(1,799,526)
Household size	3.93
	(1.92)
Age (in-years)	44
Age (in-years)	(13.56)
	Mean
Indicator Variables	Weighted means
Poor or fair health status	0.23
Ethnicity/Otherwise^b	0.11/0.89
Male/Female^b	0.48/0.52
Married	0.23
Divorced or separated	0.10
Widowed	0.03
Singled^b	0.64
Health insurance coverage/No insurance^b	0.72/0.28
Health insurance regime – Contributory	0.47
Health insurance regime – Subsidized	0.42
Health insurance regime – Other/Do not Know^b	0.11
Less than primary school^b	0.05
Less than high school	0.38
Highschool, technical education or some college	0.32
College and advanced degree	0.10
Do not Know (Education)	0.15
Employed/Unemployed^b	0.66/0.34
Urban/Rural^b	0.58/0.42
Owner occupied/Rental^b	0.52/0.48
Department level of socioeconomic development^a	2.37

Observations are pooled over a 8-years period (2011–2019). Sample is limited to individuals aged between 24–75. Weighted means are calculated using the ECV supplemental weights for individual observations
^aThree categories are considered: 1. Early; 2. Intermediate; 3. Advance. Educational variables are divided by the lower and upper bound, therefore Less than primary refers to a individual with no education or preschool studies, Less than high school refer to an individual who receive more than primary schooling but less than high school education, Highschool, technical education or some college refers to individuals in those cathegories and College and advanced degrees to individuals with the most education in our sample
^bReference category in the regression

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