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Table 7 Estimates of health effects in restricted and unrestricted models1

From: Measuring the health of the Indian elderly: evidence from National Sample Survey data

 

Restricted Model

Unrestricted Model

  

North

East

South

West

Chronic dz.

-0.35

-0.30

-0.34

-0.35

-0.51

 

(0.031)**

(0.055)**

(0.048)**

(0.061)**

(0.101)**

Hospitalization

-0.33

-0.38

-0.19

-0.36

-0.30

 

(0.052)**

(0.087)**

(0.111)

(0.101)**

(0.124)*

Visual

-0.40

-0.28

-0.53

-0.48

-0.38

 

(0.030)**

(0.045)**

(0.054)**

(0.063)**

(0.075)**

Speech

0.08

0.13

-0.03

0.08

0.24

 

(0.067)

(0.108)

(0.117)

(0.180)

(0.179)

Hearing

-0.30

-0.41

-0.26

-0.23

-0.21

 

(0.037)**

(0.059)**

(0.062)**

(0.087)**

(0.102)*

Motor

-0.73

-0.70

-0.79

-0.76

-0.73

 

(0.042)**

(0.064)**

(0.082)**

(0.094)**

(0.116)**

North

0.05

-

-

-

-

 

(0.031)

    

South

0.06

-

-

-

-

 

(0.037)

    

West

0.12

-

-

-

-

 

(0.043)**

    
  1. * = Significance at 0.05 level ** = Significance at 0.01 level
  2. 1The estimates are based on analysis of the rural females with less than primary education