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Table 3 Health status of insured individuals

From: Inequity under equality: research on the benefits equity of Chinese basic medical insurance

Quintile

URBMI

NRCMI

Sick in the last two weeks

Sick in the last half year

SRH

Sick in the last two weeks

Sick in the last half year

SRH

Poorest

0.24

0.43

0.26

0.20

0.36

0.25

(0.42)

(0.50)

(0.44)

(0.40)

(0.48)

(0.43)

2nd

0.23

0.30

0.22

0.18

0.30

0.19

(0.42)

(0.46)

(0.42)

(0.38)

(0.46)

(0.39)

3rd

0.19

0.31

0.17

0.16

0.28

0.15

(0.39)

(0.46)

(0.37)

(0.37)

(0.45)

(0.36)

4th

0.19

0.26

0.11

0.13

0.25

0.11

(0.39)

(0.44)

(0.31)

(0.34)

(0.44)

(0.32)

Richest

0.19

0.26

0.10

0.13

0.25

0.09

(0.39)

(0.44)

(0.30)

(0.33)

(0.43)

(0.29)

P value (between the poorest group and the richest group)

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***

***

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  1. Note: numbers in parentheses are standard deviations; ***, **, and * indicate significance levels of 1, 5, and 10%, respectively; the T-test method is used to test the health care utilization of the richest and poorest groups