Medical Cost and Motorcycle Helmet Law in Taiwan

Table 6

OLS regression for medical cost per head injury in a motorcycle accident.

Variable	Coefficient^a	Standard error	𝑃 value
Intercept	9.49096***	0.06281	<0.0001
Policy interactions
Policy*Center	−0.26555*	0.16026	0.0978
Policy*South	−0.10464	0.12879	0.4166
Policy*East	0.26161	0.40985	0.5234
Geographic locations
Center	−0.00096	0.12829	0.9940
South	−0.06548	0.09799	0.5042
East	−0.30702	0.33084	0.3536
(ref.: north)
Gender	0.13557**	0.05293	0.0106
Age
Children	−0.32607**	0.14953	0.0294
Adult 15–24	−0.21468***	0.05513	0.0001
Elderly	−0.10688	0.10941	0.3288
(ref.: adult 25–64)
Rural/urban
City	−0.02904	0.12142	0.8110
County administered	−0.11522	0.08924	0.1969
Town	−0.01480	0.08723	0.8653
Village	0.00583	0.08519	0.9454
(ref.: special municipality)

^a***Denotes significant at 0.01 level; **denotes significant at 0.05 level; *denotes significant at 0.1 level.
^bReference groups: north, Female, adult 25–64, special municipality, Policy*North.
AdjR² = 0.0211.
Observations = 1,254.