Table 3 Fixed Effect Regression on Inter-district Mobility in India.

From: Understanding patients' mobility for treatment seeking in India

		(1)		(2)		(3)		(4)
		Null Model	SE	Overall	SE	Male	SE	Female	SE
Nature of diseases	Other®
	CVDs	0.118***	0.005	0.089***	0.005	0.101***	0.007	0.072***	0.008
	NCDs	0.112***	0.004	0.078***	0.004	0.087***	0.006	0.071***	0.006
	Disability	0.112***	0.006	0.089***	0.005	0.099***	0.008	0.078***	0.007
	Infectious	− 0.031***	0.005	− 0.008	0.005	− 0.003	0.007	− 0.012	0.006
	Injuries	0.041***	0.005	− 0.015**	0.005	− 0.019**	0.007	− 0.004	0.008
Insurance	No®			0	(.)	0	(.)	0	(.)
Insurance	Yes			0.010*	0.004	0.01	0.006	0.009	0.006
Type of hospital	Government®			0	(.)	0	(.)	0	(.)
	NGO/Charity			0.150***	0.01	0.128***	0.014	0.175***	0.014
	Private			0.076***	0.006	0.067***	0.009	0.085***	0.009
Duration of stay	Up to 2 days®			0	(.)	0	(.)	0	(.)
	Up to 1w			0.056***	0.004	0.058***	0.005	0.054***	0.005
	More than 1w			0.176***	0.004	0.178***	0.006	0.172***	0.006
Cost of medicine	Not received			0	(.)	0	(.)	0	(.)
	Free/partly free			− 0.064**	0.024	− 0.099**	0.034	− 0.023	0.035
	On payment			− 0.038	0.024	− 0.080*	0.034	0.011	0.035
Cost of surgery	Not received ®			0	(.)	0	(.)	0	(.)
	Free/partly free			0.094***	0.006	0.084***	0.008	0.106***	0.008
	On payment			0.073***	0.004	0.078***	0.006	0.069***	0.006
Cost of X-ray/ECG/EEG	Not received ®			0	(.)	0	(.)	0	(.)
	Free/partly free			0.035***	0.006	0.040***	0.009	0.032***	0.008
	On payment			0.022**	0.007	0.026*	0.011	0.022*	0.01
Cost of other tests	Not received ®			0	(.)	0	(.)	0	(.)
	Free/partly free			0.019**	0.007	0.013	0.01	0.022*	0.01
	On payment			0.014	0.009	0.015	0.012	0.007	0.012
Free advice	Not received ®
Free advice	Yes			− 0.004	0.006	− 0.012	0.008	0.003	0.008
Social Group	ST
	SC			0.015*	0.007	0.026**	0.01	0.001	0.01
	OBC			0.025***	0.007	0.041***	0.009	0.007	0.01
	Others			0.028***	0.007	0.038***	0.01	0.017	0.01
Religion	Hinduism®
	Islam			0.003	0.005	0.007	0.007	− 0.004	0.007
	Christianity			− 0.009	0.009	0.002	0.013	− 0.017	0.012
	Others			0.019*	0.009	0.041**	0.013	− 0.003	0.013
Usual Monthly per cap. Cons. Exp				0.006***	0.001	0.006***	0.002	0.005**	0.002
Age (in years)				0	0	0	0.001	0	0.001
Age square (in years)				0	0	0	0	0	0
Place of residence	Rural®
Place of residence	Urban			− 0.020***	0.003	− 0.025***	0.005	− 0.014**	0.005
Gender	Female
Gender	Male			0.017***	0.003
Marital status	Never married®
	Currently married			− 0.002	0.006	0.01	0.009	− 0.011	0.01
	Widow/divorced			− 0.022**	0.008	− 0.016	0.013	− 0.030**	0.012
Levels of education	Non-literate®
	Primary & below			0.003	0.004	0.003	0.006	0.002	0.006
	Upper primary			0.011*	0.005	0.014*	0.007	0.005	0.007
	Secondary			0.017***	0.005	0.017*	0.007	0.015*	0.007
	HS and above			0.024***	0.005	0.033***	0.007	0.011	0.007
	r2	0.153		0.21		0.22		0.224
	N	64,779		62,338		33,089		29,248

SE, Standard errors; ^squared value; ®-reference category.
Source: Authors calculation from NSS 75th round, 2017–18.
*p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.

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Table 3 Fixed Effect Regression on Inter-district Mobility in India.

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