Growing old before growing rich: inequality in health service utilization among the mid-aged and elderly in Gansu and Zhejiang Provinces, China

Table 4 Decomposition of Health Care Utilization Inequality in Gansu and Zhejiang

	income	need	non-need	residual
Gansu Outpatient	0.02688	0.02043	0.01223	0.00716
	40.30%	30.63%	18.34%	10.73%
Gansu Inpatient	0.02409	−0.02829	0.03637	−0.02135
	21.88%	25.69%	33.03%	19.39%
Zhejiang Outpatient	0.08129	−0.03246	−0.02507	−0.00765
	55.50%	22.16%	17.12%	5.22%
Zhejiang Inpatient	0.11736	−0.1285	0.00002	−0.07887
	36.14%	39.57%	0.01%	24.29%

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