Table 4

Summary of the decomposition of hospitalisation days per person by gender from 2000 to 2010

	Gender	Number of hospitalisation days per person	Decomposition
	Gender	Number of hospitalisation days per person	Mean duration of stay per visit	Number of visits per patient	Hospitalisation rate (per 1000)
2010	Male	1.00	4.77	2.27	92.56
	Female	0.86	4.41	2.04	96.23
	Overall	0.93	4.58	2.14	94.51
2000	Male	1.22	7.38	2.03	81.34
	Female	1.14	6.33	1.93	93.31
	Overall	1.18	6.83	1.98	87.43
(2010–2000):2000 ratio	Male	−0.18	−0.35	0.12	0.14
	Female	−0.24	−0.30	0.06	0.03
	Overall	−0.21	−0.33	0.08	0.08
Relative contribution (%)	Male	–	115.5%	−41.5%	−47.0%
	Female	–	85.1%	−9.7%	−2.4%
	Overall	–	200.6%	−51.1%	−49.4%