Willingness to pay to sustain and expand National Health Insurance services in Taiwan

Table 3 Citizens' willingness to pay for sustenance NHI program

Parameter	β	S.E.	P
Intercept	-0.3521	0.2198	0.1093
Bid value	-0.0041	0.0003	<.0001
Sex (reference: female)
Male	0.0070	0.0816	0.9313
Age (reference: age < = 35)
35 < age < = 50	0.1472	0.1176	0.2106
50 < age < = 65	0.3615	0.1406	0.0101
age > 65	0.2738	0.1343	0.0415
Marital status
Married	-0.2162	0.1002	0.0309
Education (reference: elementary school or lower)
High school	0.253	0.1089	0.0201
College or graduate	0.3989	0.1183	0.0007
Health	-0.0195	0.0445	0.6619
Household income (reference: < = 29,999)
30,000–69,999	0.4264	0.1207	0.0004
70,000–99,999	0.8951	0.1557	<.0001
> = 100,000	0.9751	0.158	<.0001
Unknown	0.5653	0.131	<.0001
Geographic area (reference: Taipei region)
North region	0.0212	0.1289	0.8691
Central region	-0.2195	0.1192	0.0656
South region	0.028	0.1318	0.8321
KaoPin region	0.1922	0.1225	0.1167
East region	0.3517	0.2417	0.1456

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