Potential patient level correlates of GPs' perception of patient social status.

dichotomized to facilitate interpretation.transformed into individual weighted monthly income, drawing its inspiration from OECD's modified equivalence scale.[17] The formula was:Individual weighted income = Household total income/[(1+partner+x*teen+y*child)/(1+0.5*partner+0.5*x*teen+0.3*z*child)].merged into two groups, reflecting either “stability” (wage and/or self-employed salary and/or retirement pension and/or assets) or “instability” of income (invalid's insurance pension and/or unemployment benefit and/or social welfare and/or loss-of-income insurance and/or alimony and/or study grant and/or family).