How an increase in income affects the use of dental care services among a low-income population: evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment

Table 1 Background characteristics before experiment (2016)

	Basic income group	Control group	Difference	P-value
Annual taxable income, €	10744.43	10826.21	-81.78	0.413
Women, %	47.8	47.5	0.3	0.812
Age				0.294
25–34, %	33.5	35.1	-1.6
35–44, %	27.4	27.1	0.3
45–59, %	39.0	37.7	1.3
Foreign language, %	24.6	25.4	-0.8	0.398
Place of residence				0.731
Urban, %	79.0	79.5	-0.5
Semi-urban, %	10.9	11.0	-0.1
Rural, %	10.0	9.5	0.5
N	2000	173,222

Notes For continuous and binary variables, p-values are based on t-tests. For categorical variables, p-values are based on chi2-tests

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