Table 1 Number (percentage) of claimants receiving payments for each specific health service categories by descriptive category

Total (row percentage)

37,315

8087 (21.7%)

2521 (6.8%)

1233 (3.3%)

1386 (3.7%)

745 (2.0%)

15,443 (41.4%)

15,854 (42.5%)

27,919 (74.8%)

21,975 (58.9%)

 Male

13,122 (35.2%)

2416 (18.4%)

741 (5.6%)

273 (2.1%)

371 (2.8%)

188 (1.4%)

5444 (41.5%)

5744 (43.8%)

10,014 (76.3%)

7881 (60.1%)

 Female

24,182 (64.8%)

5669 (23.4%)

1778 (7.4%)

959 (4.0%)

1015 (4.2%)

557 (2.3%)

9996 (41.3%)

10,107 (41.8%)

17,900 (74.0%)

14,088 (58.3%)

Missing N=

11

2

2

1

0

0

3

3

5

6

z statistic (Mann-Whitney U), p, r^a

z = −11.3, p < .001, r = 0.13

z = −6.3, p < .001, r = 0.13

z = −9.7, p < .001, r = 0.28

z = −6.7, p < .001, r = 0.18

z = −5.7, p < .001, r = 0.21

z = − 0.30, p < .777, r = 0.00

z = − 3.7, p < .001, r = 0.03

z = − 4.9, p < .001, r = 0.03

z = − 3.4, p < .001, r = 0.02

 18–24

8981 (24.1%)

1022 (11.4%)

424 (4.7%)

168 (1.9%)

147 (1.6%)

57 (0.6%)

3326 (37.0%)

3692 (41.1%)

7488 (83.4%)

5411 (60.2%)

 25–34

8632 (23.1%)

1791 (20.7%)

652 (7.6%)

347 (4.0%)

268 (3.1%)

136 (1.6%)

3259 (37.8%)

3612 (41.8%)

6480 (75.1%)

4824 (55.9%)

 35–44

7269 (19.5%)

1910 (26.3%)

624 (8.9%)

313 (4.3%)

390 (5.4%)

221 (3.0%)

3212 (44.2%)

3064 (42.2%)

5118 (70.4%)

4206 (57.9%)

 45–54

5941 (15.9%)

1688 (28.4%)

449 (7.6%)

222 (3.7%)

322 (5.4%)

163 (2.7%)

2707 (45.6%)

2649 (44.6%)

4177 (70.3%)

3576 (60.2%)

 55–64

3676 (9.9%)

1058 (28.8%)

252 (6.9%)

114 (3.1%)

179 (4.9%)

99 (2.7%)

1714 (46.6%)

1611 (43.8%)

2528 (68.8%)

2233 (60.7%)

  > 65

2816 (7.5%)

618 (21.9%)

120 (4.3%)

69 (2.5%)

80 (2.8%)

69 (2.5%)

1225 (43.5%)

1226 (43.5%)

2128 (75.6%)

1725 (61.3%)

Chi-squared (χ²) (Kruskal-Wallis H), p, ε^2a

χ² = 924.1, p < .001, ε² = 0.11

χ² = 140.3, p < .001, ε² = 0.06

χ² = 104.8, p < .001, ε² = 0.09

χ² = 240.8, p < .001, ε² = 0.17

χ² = 162.4, p < .001, ε² = 0.22

χ² = 230.1, p < .001, ε² = 0.01

χ² = 23.5, p < .001, ε² = 0.00

χ² = 560.8, p < .001, ε² = 0.02

χ² = 58.1, p < .001, ε² = 0.00

 Major cities

28,381 (76.1%)

6804 (24.0%)

2049 (7.2%)

1032 (3.6%)

1166 (4.1%)

632 (2.2%)

11,080 (39.0%)

13,343 (47.0%)

20,489 (72.2%)

16,147 (56.9%)

 Inner regional

7410 (19.9%)

1049 (14.2%)

402 (5.4%)

175 (2.4%)

189 (2.6%)

103 (1.4%)

3496 (47.2%)

2141 (28.9%)

6183 (83.4%)

4850 (65.5%)

 Outer regional

1216 (3.3%)

162 (13.3%)

51 (4.2%)

16 (1.3%)

24 (2.0%)

7 (0.6%)

706 (58.1%)

272 (22.4%)

1020 (83.9%)

804 (66.1%)

 Remote

30 (0.1%)

8 (26.7%)

5 (16.7%)

1 (3.3%)

–

–

14 (46.7%)

9 (30.0%)

22 (73.3%)

14 (46.7%)

 Very remote

5 (−)

1 (20.0%)

–

1 (20.0%)

–

–

3 (60.0%)

1 (20.0%)

4 (80.0%)

1 (20.0%)

 Missing

273

63

14

8

7

3

144

88

201

159

 Chi-squared (χ²) (Kruskal-Wallis H), p, ε^2a

χ² = 385.6, p < .001, ε² = 0.05

χ² = 48.1, p < .001, ε² = 0.02

χ² = 49.8, p < .001, ε² = 0.04

χ² = 51.9, p < .001, ε² = 0.04

χ² = 34.8, p < .001, ε² = 0.05

χ² = 307.4, p < .001, ε² = 0.02

χ² = 1002.2, p < .001, ε² = 0.06

χ² = 449.5, p < .001, ε² = 0.02

χ² = 209.7, p < .001, ε² = 0.01

 Yes

1407 (3.8%)

1016 (72.2%)

183 (13.0%)

72 (5.1%)

318 (22.6%)

157 (11.1%)

890 (63.2%)

729 (51.8%)

362 (25.7%)

872 (62.0%)

 No

35,908 (96.2%)

7071 (19.7%)

2338 (6.5%)

1161 (3.2%)

1068 (3.0%)

588 (1.6%)

14,553 (40.5%)

15,125 (42.1%)

27,557 (76.7%)

21,103 (58.8%)

z statistic (Mann-Whitney U), p, r^a

z = −46.9, p < .001, r = 0.52

z = −9.5, p < .001, r = 0.19

z = −3.9, p < .001, r = 0.11

z = −38.2, p < .001, r = 1.03

z = −25.0, p < .001, 0.92

z = −17.0, p < .001, r = 0.14

z = −7.2, p < .001, r = 0.06

z = −43.2, p < .001, r = 0.26

z = −2.4, p < .016, r = 0.02