NCMS, for example, is underwritten by both the central and provincial governments, but the county-unit governments have most of the responsibility for setting parameters of the program, such as user fees or, equivalently, insurance premiums, resulting in large differences across counties in health service coverage and the percentage of total costs reimbursed.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there may be important and potentially confounding differences across individual counties such as whether or not the county has access to a juvenile detention center.
The PPI shows large differences across the counties with a minimum of 46 (in Vinhais) and a maximum of 236 (in Lisbon), indicating large disparities regarding the distribution of the economical power in mainland Portugal.
Moreover, results (not shown) indicate differences exist across counties of Minnesota in the reporting of multiple causes of death ranging from 50%to80%0%.
There was considerable variation across counties reflecting both socio-demographic and market-related factors.
Univariate analyses showed no statistically significant difference across the counties for race, smoking status, body mass index (BMI), caffeine intake, and vitamin use.
Problems identified included coarse spatial resolution of county-referenced data and differences across the United States in size of counties, making data for the western part of the country coarser in resolution than data for the eastern part.
The regional variations seen in Sweden are in part associated with differences in the organization of healthcare production across county councils [ 27].
Among 23,314 U.S. adults in the population-based Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study, we assessed participant differences across geospatially-linked categories of county poverty [outlier poverty, extremely high poverty, very high poverty, high poverty, neither (reference), high affluence and outlier affluence].
They attributed the difference to double-counting in the confused first hours of the storm as many victims were transported across county lines to hospitals or morgues.
