Table 1

Descriptive statistics

	Full sample		2011	2013	2015	2017
	Mean	SD	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean
LOS	3.96	5.22	3.79	4.23	3.94	3.90
Public insurance	0.75	0.44	0.78	0.74	0.73	0.74
Public hospital	0.72	0.45	0.76	0.72	0.70	0.71
Age	4.24	4.54	4.22	4.22	4.20	4.30
Female indicator	0.44	0.50	0.44	0.43	0.44	0.44
Medical complexity indicator	0.02	0.12	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02
Rural municipality	0.20	0.40	0.21	0.21	0.19	0.19
Poverty rate	15.69	10.18	23.07	14.98	11.90	11.87
Poverty rate by quintile:
Low	5.49	3.33	9.34	4.39	3.96	3.94
Low medium	10.47	4.04	16.44	9.79	7.48	7.47
Medium	14.61	4.80	21.81	14.35	10.57	10.60
High medium	18.81	5.54	27.02	17.92	14.41	14.38
High	29.54	10.26	41.54	29.13	23.30	23.26
Observations	1 033 222		279 586	259 758	254 507	239 371