Table 2 Sample size, frequency (in percentage) of GP and specialist visits in the 2 weeks before the interview and frequency (in percentage) of hospitalisation during the year before the interview: total and by three indicators of socioeconomic position
From: Socioeconomic patterns in the use of public and private health services and equity in health care
Measures of socioeconomic position | Sample size | GP visits | Specialist visits | Hospitalisation | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Public | Private | Public | Private | Public | Private | ||
Total | 18,837 | 18.8 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 1.9 | 6.9 | 1.0 |
Education | |||||||
Tertiary | 2,870 | 9.8 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 1.9 |
Upper secondary | 4,335 | 13.3 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 4.6 | 0.9 |
Lower secondary | 3,209 | 17.1 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 6.3 | 0.9 |
Primary/no education | 8,423 | 26.8 | 0.4 | 6.1 | 1.0 | 9.8 | 0.7 |
Social class a | |||||||
I–II | 3,240 | 11.5 | 2.6 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 2.2 |
III | 4,804 | 16.5 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 6.1 | 1.3 |
IV | 5,665 | 22.0 | 0.5 | 5.7 | 1.2 | 7.7 | 0.6 |
V–VI | 4,846 | 22.6 | 0.1 | 5.1 | 0.7 | 8.3 | 0.4 |
Monthly income b | |||||||
More than 1800 euros | 3,762 | 11.6 | 2.1 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 4.8 | 1.7 |
From 1201 to 1800 euros | 3,756 | 16.7 | 0.9 | 4.8 | 1.9 | 5.9 | 1.2 |
From 901 to 1200 euros | 3,756 | 18.6 | 0.6 | 5.4 | 1.2 | 7.1 | 0.6 |
Up to 900 euros | 6,234 | 27.8 | 0.4 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 9.8 | 0.3 |