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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of patient encounters

From: Health profiles of foreigners attending primary care clinics in Malaysia

	Overall		Public clinics		Private clinics
Characteristic	No. of encounter^a	Percentage	No. of encounter	Percentage	No. of encounter	Percentage	P-value^*
Gender
Male	6569	69.9	379	39.7	6190	73.3	<0.001
Female	2831	30.1	574	60.2	2257	26.7
Age (years)
Median, IQR	28.3	(24.0, 34.8)	30.0	(23.3, 36.5)	28.2	(24.0, 34.5)
Age group
< 1	305	3.1	111	11.3	194	2.2	<0.001
1–9	109	1.1	20	2.0	89	1.0
10–19	268	2.7	28	2.9	240	2.7
20–29	4832	48.7	329	33.5	4503	50.4
30–39	2920	29.4	308	31.4	2612	29.2
40–49	1182	11.9	125	12.7	1057	11.8
50–59	209	2.1	34	3.4	175	2.0
≥ 60	100	1.0	27	2.7	73	0.8
Country of origin
Asia	9023	96.1	988	99.4	8035	95.7	0.1603
Indonesia	2355	25.1	301	30.2	2054	24.5
Bangladesh	1751	18.7	131	13.2	1620	19.3
Nepal	1505	16.0	85	8.5	1420	16.9
Myanmar	1182	12.6	90	9.1	1092	13.0
India	544	5.8	39	4.0	505	6.0
The Philippines	440	4.7	153	15.4	287	3.4
Others^b	1246	13.3	189	19.0	1057	12.6
Africa	226	2.4	6	0.6	220	2.6
Europe	102	1.1	-	-	102	1.2
Oceania	37	0.4	-	-	37	0.4

Note: IQR interquartile range
^*Chi-square test for differences between public and private clinics, P-value < 0.05 considered as significant
^aTotal encounter may not total up to 10,830 because of missing information
^bOther Asia countries include Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Syria, Timor, and Yemen

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