The use of annual physical examinations among the elderly in rural China: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the elderly aged 60 or over in rural China

Characteristics	Frequency (n = 1128)	Percentage (%)
Gender
Male	608	53.9
Female	520	46.1
Age
60-69	497	44.1
70-79	474	42.0
80 or over	157	13.9
Education level
Less than 6 years elementary study	610	54.1
Elementary	361	32.0
Middle school and above	157	13.9
Occupation ^*
Farmer	887	78.6
Self-employed or Migrant worker	103	9.1
Civil servant or retired	138	12.2
Type of health insurance
New cooperative medical system	1104	97.9
Non-new cooperative medical system	24	2.1
Number of household members
1	97	8.6
2	278	24.6
3-4	388	34.4
5 or above	365	32.4
Time required to reach township hospitals
Less than 10 min	858	76.1
10 min to 19 min	187	16.6
20 min and above	83	7.4
Annul disposable household income
Less than CNY 10,000	441	39.1
CNY 10,000 to CNY 19,999	265	23.5
CNY 20,000 and above	422	37.4

*Self-employed means people who run a private small-scale business by themselves, such as food-shop owners, repair-shop owners and rice-noodles sellers. Migrant worker means the rural people who go into the cities to do an off-farm work but go back to their villages in harvest seasons and in Chinese traditional festivals.
Civil servant means people who are employed by the government, public sectors or enterprise held by the government. Retired means people who retired from these institutions.

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