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Table 1 Proportion of persons who, for financial reasons during the last three months, refrained from health care visits, purchasing medicine or dental care visits, prevalence of longstanding illness and proportion lacking cash margin, by gender, age group, employment, country of birth and educational level

From: Social inequalities in self-reported refraining from health care due to financial reasons in Sweden: health care on equal terms?

Group (18-84 years)

N

Health care visits (%)

Medications (%)

Dentistry (%)

Longstanding illness (%)

No cash margin (%)

Total

38536

3

4

10

31

21

Women

20897

4

5

11

32

25

Men

17639

2

3

8

30

16

  p-value for difference*

 

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

18-34 years

7256

5

6

16

18

29

35-49 years

7963

4

5

13

26

24

50-64 years

10442

3

3

7

35

17

65-84 years

12875

2

2

5

39

17

  p-value for difference*

 

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

Employed (18-64 yrs)

16729

2

3

9

21

17

Self-employed

2167

2

2

5

23

8

Student

1721

6

6

16

18

38

Unemployed (18-64 yrs)

972

12

13

30

33

55

On disability pension (18-64 yrs)

1972

10

14

25

86

43

Retired

12407

2

2

5

40

17

  p-value for difference*

 

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

Born in Sweden

34312

3

3

9

31

19

Born in other Nordic countries

1965

3

4

11

42

23

Born outside Nordic countries

2259

8

7

20

32

38

  p-value for difference*

 

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

Post-secondary education.

10551

2

2

8

27

11

Secondary education

16347

4

5

12

30

23

Compulsory education

10740

3

4

8

36

26

  p-value for difference*

 

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

  1. *P-values obtained using chi-square statistics.