Long-term care use and socio-economic status in Belgium: a survival analysis using health care insurance data

Table 3 Association between preferential status and the first occurrence of home care use within the permanent sample of persons covered by the Belgian public health insurance (2004–09)

Model	Variable	Men			Women
		Est.	St.error	Sign.	Est.	St.error	Sign.
Basic model	Pref. Status	0.266	0.048	0.000	0.089	0.032	0.005
Interaction with age	Pref. Status	0.631	0.126	0.000	0.265	0.081	0.001
	Interaction var*	−0.023	0.008	0.002	−0.011	0.005	0.018
With chronic conditions & interaction with age	Pref. Status	0.575	0.127	0.000	0.255	0.081	0.002
	Interaction var*	−0.020	0.008	0.009	−0.011	0.005	0.029

Coefficients estimated by discrete survival analysis using logistic regression.
Also included in all models: age, partner (time-dependent), province, year, quarter.
* interaction variable is specified as preferential_status * (age – 65).

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