Impact of Health Insurance on Health Care Utilisation and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Vietnam

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of health care utilisation across different samples in 2014 and 2016.

Variables	VHI
	2014				2016
	Treated ()		Control ()		Treated ()		Control ()
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Probability of having outpatient visits	0.320	0.467	0.304	0.460	0.434	0.495	0.308	0.461
Probability of having inpatient visits	0.049	0.217	0.037	0.188	0.109	0.312	0.039	0.195
Number of outpatient visits	2.422	3.519	2.218	2.714	2.493	3.637	2.312	2.336
Number of inpatient visits	0.158	0.418	0.133	0.407	0.355	1.030	0.152	0.542
Total visits	0.911	2.406	0.781	1.892	1.459	2.991	0.842	1.787
Number of visits at the district hospital	0.351	1.061	0.327	0.880	0.867	3.151	0.281	0.941
Number of visits at the provincial hospital	0.742	1.661	0.343	1.030	0.616	1.631	0.427	1.365
Variables	HSHI
	2014				2016
	Treated ()		Control ()		Treated ()		Control ()
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Probability of having outpatient visits	0.310	0.463	0.304	0.460	0.408	0.492	0.308	0.461
Probability of having inpatient visits	0.060	0.238	0.037	0.188	0.095	0.294	0.039	0.195
Number of outpatient visits	1.778	1.800	2.218	2.714	2.439	2.715	2.312	2.336
Number of inpatient visits	0.185	0.435	0.133	0.407	0.275	0.687	0.152	0.542
Total visits	0.710	1.389	0.781	1.892	1.254	2.268	0.842	1.787
Number of visits at the district hospital	0.451	1.115	0.327	0.880	0.763	1.665	0.281	0.941
Number of visits at the provincial hospital	0.259	0.541	0.343	1.030	0.522	1.616	0.427	1.365

SD: standard deviation; : number of observations.