Health care utilisation amongst older adults with sensory and cognitive impairments in Europe

Health Economics Review

Table 1 Descriptive statistics

Variable	Observations	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min	Max
Health care utilisation
Doctor visits	85,147	7.00	9.59	0	98
GP visits	59,965	4.73	7.01	0	98
Hospitalisations	85,473	0.24	0.80	0	10
Predisposing factors
Age	85,473	65.69	9.73	50	104
Male	85,473	0.45	0.50	0	1
Married	85,473	0.72	0.45	0	1
Immigrant	85,473	0.08	0.27	0	1
Primary education	85,473	0.27	0.44	0	1
Secondary education	85,473	0.51	0.50	0	1
Tertiary education	85,473	0.22	0.41	0	1
Enabling factors
Employed	85,473	0.26	0.44	0	1
ln(income_ppp)	85,473	10.03	1.40	−5.62	15.99
Health behaviours
Present smoker	85,473	0.18	0.38	0	1
Regular alcohol consumption	85,473	0.37	0.48	0	1
Regular physical activity	85,473	0.34	0.47	0	1
Need factors
ADL scale	85,473	0.19	0.72	0	6
No. of chronic diseases	85,473	1.40	1.31	0	11
Cognitive impairment	85,473	0.28	0.45	0	1
Sensory impairment	85,473	0.38	0.48	0	1
Sense_Cog impairment	85,473	0.14	0.34	0	1
Country dummies
Austria	85,473	0.12	0.32	0	1
Germany	85,473	0.07	0.26	0	1
Netherlands	85,473	0.10	0.30	0	1
Spain	85,473	0.11	0.31	0	1
Italy	85,473	0.11	0.32	0	1
France	85,473	0.15	0.36	0	1
Switzerland	85,473	0.09	0.28	0	1
Belgium	85,473	0.16	0.37	0	1
Denmark	85,473	0.09	0.28	0	1
Wave dummies
SHARE Wave 1	85,473	0.18	0.38	0	1
SHARE Wave 2	85,473	0.21	0.41	0	1
SHARE Wave 4	85,473	0.31	0.46	0	1
SHARE Wave 5	85,473	0.30	0.46	0	1
Number of waves	85,473	2.91	0.87	2	4
Number of zero counts
	Observations	Zeros	Percentage of zeros
Doctor visits	85,147	8784	10.32%
GP visits	59,965	9485	15.82%
Hospitalisations	85,473	72,796	85.17%

ISSN: 2191-1991