UPDATED 10/1/2017
People living in rural, regional and remote Australia are less likely to have private health insurance than those in Major cities: 39% of those in Major cities do not have any form of private health insurance, compared with 50% of people in Inner regional areas and 52% of people in Outer regional, Remote and Very remote areas combined.
|
|
MC |
IR |
OR/Rem/V Rem |
|
|
Percent |
||
|
Does not have private health insurance |
39.3 |
49.9 |
52.3 |
|
Both hospital and extras cover |
50.5 |
41.1 |
38.7 |
|
Hospital cover only |
5.9 |
6.0 |
4.7 |
|
Extras cover only |
4.2 |
3.1 |
4.2 |
|
Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/4839.02015-16?OpenDocument
Table 3.2.
Note that Table 3.2 also describes private health insurance status of people in each of the SEIFA quintiles.
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