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Table 6 Interaction between education and ownership of supplemental health insurance, and their effect on the level of out-of-pocket expenditure for dental care (2018 survey)

From: Factors associated with disparities in out-of-pocket expenditure on dental care: results from two cross-sectional national surveys

 

Ownership of a supplementary health insurance among those with an expense

Log coefficient (SE) for with supplementary insurance (vs without) stratified by education years

Years of education

No (N = 352)

Yes (N = 2349)

Log coefficient (SE)

Log coefficient (SE)

0–8 (N = 96)

1.0 Reference category

1.11 (0.32)*

 

9–12 (N = 718)

0.61 (0.28)

 

0.24 (0.16)

13–15 (N = 539)

0.94 (0.32)*

 

−0.18 (0.23)

16+ (N = 1348)

0.58 (0.35)

 

0.06 (0.23)

Log coefficient (SE) for 9–12(vs0–8)stratified by ownership of supplementary insurance

 

−0.27 (0.24)

 

Log coefficient (SE) for 13–15(vs0–8)stratified by ownership of supplementary insurance

 

−0.36 (0.24)

 

Log coefficient (SE) for 16+(vs0–8)stratified by ownership of supplementary insurance

 

−0.48 (0.24)

 
  1. SE standard error
  2. *P < 0.05 after Bonferroni correction for multiple-comparisons
  3. Notes: Weighted model, adjusted for sex, marital status, religiosity level, ethnicity, income deciles, peripherality index, ownership of an apartment, ownership of a car, and the age composition of the household; Supplementary insurance includes supplemental insurance of the health plans, private commercial health insurance, private dental insurance, long-term care insurance and other private health insurance