Illness and medical and other expenditures: observations from western and eastern China

Table 1 Sample characteristics for the six cities

			Presence of chronic disease		Presence of inpatient treatment		Medical expenditure
		Whole cohort	Yes	No	Yes	No	High	Low
Total sample		12515	5862	6653	7360	5155	6388	6127
	*		46.84	53.16	58.81	41.19	51.04	48.96
Eastern	Beijing	2143	1379	764	1275	868	1173	970
	*		64.35	35.65	59.50	40.50	54.74	45.26
	Shanghai	2139	959	1180	1264	875	1280	859
	*		44.83	55.17	59.09	40.91	59.84	40.16
	Xiamen	1746	706	1040	1049	697	586	1160
	*		40.44	59.56	60.08	39.92	33.56	66.44
	p-value		(<0.001)		(0.823)		(<0.001)
Western	Lanzhou	2151	972	1179	1288	863	1026	1125
	*		45.19	54.81	59.88	40.12	47.70	52.30
	Guilin	2128	912	1216	1243	885	1118	1010
	*		42.86	57.14	58.41	41.59	52.54	47.46
	Xi'an	2208	934	1274	1241	967	1205	1003
	*		42.30	57.70	56.20	43.80	54.57	45.43
	p-value		(0.126)		(0.047)		(<0.001)

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