Econometric estimation of WHO-CHOICE country-specific costs for inpatient and outpatient health service delivery

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of sample used for final inpatient care estimates (N = 3407)

	Description	Mean	SE
Ln cost per bed day	Natural log of cost per bed day in 2007 I$	181.59	241.21
Ln GDP per capita	Natural log of GDP per capita in 2007 I$	8788.86	3729.88
Ln occupancy rate	Natural log of bed occupancy rate	0.23	0.33
Ln ALOS	Natural log of Average Length of Stay (ALOS)	4.16	2.33
Ln admissions	Natural log of total inpatient admissions	4700.00	7416.81
District	Dummy variable for level 3 facilities^a (equivalent to district hospitals)	0.80	0.40
Teaching	Dummy variable for level 5 facilities (teaching hospitals)^a	0.09	0
Public	Dummy variable for public hospitals^b	0.58	1
Private	Dummy variable for private hospitals^b	0.16	0
Brazil	Dummy variable for Brazil. Brazil = 1	0.58	1

^aDummies for hospital level are compared with level 4 facilities
^bDummies for hospital ownership are compared with private not-for profit hospitals

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