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Table 3 Descriptive statistics of continuous variables

From: Determinants of efficiency growth of county-level public hospitals-evidence from Chongqing, China

Variable name

Years

Min.

Max.

Mean

Std. Dev.

Efficiency score

2012–2016

0.42

1.00

0.83

0.16

2012

0.50

1.00

0.79

0.18

2013

0.47

1.00

0.83

0.16

2014

0.51

1.00

0.81

0.16

2015

0.55

1.00

0.86

0.13

2016

0.42

1.00

0.85

0.15

Government financial assistance

2012–2016

0.00

0.82

0.19

0.17

Physical area of the hospital

806.00

136,000.00

21,088.68

23,472.26

Actual number of open beds

15.00

1470.00

342.66

307.36

Number of healthcare technicians

18.00

1403.00

343.18

295.22

Total fixed assets

1264.00

635,559.00

56,597.50

84,562.53

Daily charge per bed (Cost of every bed-day in hospital: yuan/bed-day)

0.30

2.89

0.83

0.28

Medical costs per 100-yuan medical income

0.0009

0.0247

0.0106

0.0022

Total assets turnover

0.09

6.06

1.20

0.70

Ratio of revenue and expenditure

−3.686

98.018

22.45

16.37

Asset-liability ratio

0.00

102.03

44.95

25.21

Per capita gross domestic product (GDP)

12,969.47

91,552.13

37,720.33

19,792.18

Number of healthcare technicians per 1000 people (person)

1.70

17.70

4.42

2.73

Population density

0.01

0.40

0.07

0.10

Density of medical institutions

0.06

1.92

0.35

0.41

Urbanization rate

27.120

95.70

49.27

20.35

  1. Note: The efficiency score is technical efficiency derived from the result of the DEA model. DEAP 2.1 software was used