Outcome | By household geographic location | |
Rural | Urban | |
Doctor visit | 1.020 (9.420) | −14.064** (7.032) |
Dentist | 6.660 (6.372) | −20.316*** (5.868) |
Diagnostic | −5.448 (4.800) | −7.932 (8.004) |
Household pharmaceutical medical spending | −24.528*** (10.224) | −1.428 (9.624) |
Household total medical expenditures | −46.716** (27.024) | −70.056*** (22.608) |
Compare declines above with: | ||
Mean total household medical spending | 192.732 | 205.884 |
Total decline as per cent of total per-household medical spending | 24 | 34 |
X variables | Yes | Yes |
Observations | 18 673 | 32 752 |
Authors’ analysis of Turkey Household Budget Surveys: 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Robust SEs are in parenthesis. *10%, **5%, ***1% in a one-tail t-test. See the notes in table 1.