Study Kotakorpi & Laamanen (2010): study FI 2000
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Finland, 2000
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 1000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Excess expenditure on primary public healthcare in community
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Approximately 2/3 of all health care services in Finland are provided by the public sector.
- Distribution
- Not reported.
- Operationalization
- More expenses for primary public health care than expected on the basis of visits to public health centres and treatment days in public health care (residue variance in regression with expenses as dependent variable and visits and treatment days as independent variables)
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Individual characteristics:
- income
- age
- gender
- employment
- education
- marital status
- children
- religiousness
- time spend with friends
- unfit for work
- Municipality level variables:
- log of average income
- unemployement rate
- log of houseprices
- log of net expenditures in soc. services & administration
- log of net expenditures in education & culture
- net expenditures in other sectors
- excess exenditures in special private healthcare