Table 1 Descriptive statistics
From: Urban-rural disparities in health care utilization among Chinese adults from 1993 to 2011
Variable | All | Rural | Urban | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
What did you do when sick?, n (%) | 0.000 | |||
 Did not pay any attention | 957(9.49) | 583(10.75) | 374(8.03) | |
 Self-care | 2650(26.29) | 1141(21.04) | 1509(32.40) | |
 Outpatient | 5860(58.14) | 3398(62.67) | 2462(52.87) | |
 Inpatient | 612(6.07) | 300(5.53) | 312(6.70) | |
Health need variables | ||||
How severe was the illness or injury?, n (%) | 0.000 | |||
 Not severe (Ref.) | 4118(40.86) | 2256(41.61) | 1862(39.98) | |
 Somewhat severe | 4848(48.10) | 2507(46.24) | 2341(50.27) | |
 Quite severe | 1113(11.04) | 659(12.15) | 454(9.75) | |
Diseases history, n (%) | 0.000 | |||
 No (Ref.) | 6547(64.96) | 3936(72.59) | 2611(56.07) | |
 Yes | 3532(35.04) | 1486(27.41) | 2046(43.93) | |
Predisposing variables | ||||
Age, mean (SD) | 55.61(15.45) | 54.35(15.20) | 57.07(15.62) | 0.000 |
Gender, n (%) | 0.001 | |||
 Male (Ref.) | 4313(42.79) | 2236(41.24) | 2077(44.60) | |
 Female | 5766(57.21) | 3186(58.76) | 2580(55.40) | |
Marital status, n (%) | 0.001 | |||
 Married (Ref.) | 8116(80.52) | 4433(81.76) | 3683(79.09) | |
 Others | 1963(19.48) | 989(18.24) | 974(20.91) | |
Health enabling variables | ||||
Education, mean (SD) | 6.44(4.62) | 4.99(3.93) | 8.14(4.79) | 0.000 |
Income (RMB in 2011 value), mean (SD) | 10,221.41 (12,190.99) | 7098.18 (9421.41) | 13,857.69 (13,919.75) | 0.000 |
Types of medical insurance, n (%) | 0.000 | |||
 None (Ref.) | 3810(37.80) | 2360(43.53) | 1450(31.14) | |
 NCMS | 3086(30.62) | 2791(51.48) | 295(6.33) | |
 URBMI | 744(7.38) | 55(1.01) | 689(14.79) | |
 UEBMI | 1156(11.47) | 50(0.92) | 1106(23.75) | |
 Others | 1283(12.73) | 166(3.06) | 1117(23.99) | |
Area (%) | 0.000 | |||
 Western (Ref.) | 2832(28.10) | 1832(33.79) | 1000(21.47) | |
 Central | 3009(29.85) | 1776(32.76) | 1233(26.48) | |
 North-eastern | 1503(14.91) | 792(14.61) | 711(15.27) | |
 Eastern | 2735(27.14) | 1022(18.85) | 1713(36.78) | |
Wave, n (%) | 0.000 | |||
 1993 (Ref.) | 343(3.40) | 204(3.76) | 139(2.98) | |
 1997 | 656(6.51) | 368(6.79) | 288(6.18) | |
 2000 | 695(6.90) | 367(6.77) | 328(7.04) | |
 2004 | 1854(18.39) | 1085(20.01) | 769(16.51) | |
 2006 | 1551(15.39) | 968(17.85) | 583(12.52) | |
 2009 | 2094(20.78) | 1190(21.95) | 904(19.41) | |
 2011 | 2886(28.63) | 1240(22.87) | 1646(35.34) | |