Small is beautiful? Explaining resident satisfaction in Swedish nursing home care

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of aggregate variables

	Mean	SD	Median	IQR	Missing
Dependent variable
Aggregate resident satisfaction	0.01*	1.00*	0.05	1.34	4
Processual variables
Participation in resident councils	0.00*	1.00*	0.48	1.63	0
Individualized action plans	0.00*	1.00*	0.48	1.00	0
Meal-related routines and plans	0.00*	1.00*	−0.17	1.60	53
Patient safety routines	0.00*	1.00*	−0.35	1.98	0
Care coordination routines	0.00*	1.00*	−0.05	2.07	0
Medication review routines	0.00*	1.00*	0.09	2.18	0
Availability of exercise and activities	0.00*	1.00*	0.08	1.82	0
Structural variables
Private ownership of nursing home	0.19	0.39	0.00	0.00	1
Size of nursing home	43.57	22.70	39.00	25.00	6
Nurses per resident	0.03	0.01	0.03	0.02	62
Staff per resident	0.29	0.06	0.28	0.06	41
Staff with adequate education	83.71	14.12	86.86	18.54	40
Has general care facilities	0.79	0.41	1.00	0.00	0
Has dementia care facilities	0.59	0.49	1.00	1.00	0
Has assisted living facilities	0.05	0.23	0.00	0.00	0
Resident Health Controls
Aggregate self-rated health	0.01*	1.00*	−0.04	1.31	12
Municipal controls (Weighted by # of nursing homes in Municipality)
Population 65+ in Nursing Home (%)	4.21	0.88	4.21	0.99	19
Population 65+ (%)	21.22	4.19	21.20	6.33	0
Population per square kilometer	472.4	1164.7	60.6	116	0
Average annual cost per resident (SEK)	838,285	161,812	822,686	117,267	19
Average age of residents in nursing homes	83.49	1.82	83.60	2.30	0
Political control (left = −1, mixed = 0, right = 1)	−0.12	0.80	0.00	2.00	0
Average annual per capita taxable income (SEK)	188,232	24,921	183,269	23,691	0

*These variables are mean centered and normalized. The reader may draw conclusions regarding the distribution of the normalized variables by examining the median to determine skew, and IQR to assess for kurtosis (a standard normal distribution has an IQR of 1.35)

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