Table 1 Characteristics of the migrants who need to be hospitalized by doctor’s diagnosis, China (n = 7592)
Characteristics | Total N (%) | Inpatient services | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Met need N (%) | Unmet need N (%) | p-value | ||
Total | 7592 | 5925 (81.25) | 1667 (18.75) | |
Socioeconomic status | ||||
Educational attainment | < 0.001 | |||
 Primary school or below | 1106 (12.48) | 721 (10.66) | 385 (20.37) | |
 Middle school | 3544 (45.65) | 2725 (45.17) | 819 (47.74) | |
 High school | 1499 (21.42) | 1226 (22.12) | 273 (18.37) | |
 University or above | 1443 (20.45) | 1253 (22.05) | 190 (13.52) | |
Economic status | < 0.001 | |||
 Quartile 1 | 1927 (18.26) | 1363 (16.93) | 564 (23.99) | |
 Quartile 2 | 2227 (26.27) | 1724 (25.70) | 503 (28.74) | |
 Quartile 3 | 1565 (22.21) | 1286 (22.97) | 279 (18.94) | |
 Quartile 4 | 1873 (33.26) | 1552 (34.40) | 321 (28.34) | |
Control variables | ||||
Gender | < 0.001 | |||
 Female | 5461 (78.82) | 4670 (83.87) | 791 (56.92) | |
 Male | 2131 (21.18) | 1255 (16.13) | 876 (43.08) | |
 Age | 32.31 | 31.25 | 36.90 | < 0.001 |
Marital status | < 0.001 | |||
 Married | 7120 (94.70) | 5649 (96.21) | 1471 (88.19) | |
 Single | 472 (5.30) | 276 (3.79) | 196 (11.81) | |
Number of children | < 0.001 | |||
 0 | 195 (2.69) | 126 (2.01) | 69 (5.60) | |
 1 | 4070 (50.72) | 3340 (53.04) | 730 (40.69) | |
 ≧2 | 3327 (46.59) | 2459 (44.95) | 868 (53.71) | |
Ethnic group | 0.943 | |||
 Han | 6915 (92.92) | 5396 (92.91) | 1519 (92.99) | |
 Ethnic minority | 677 (7.08) | 529 (7.09) | 148 (7.01) | |
Health records | 0.103 | |||
 Yes | 5648 (76.90) | 4396 (76.25) | 1252 (79.74) | |
 No | 1944 (23.10) | 1529 (23.75) | 415 (20.26) | |
Hukou | 0.423 | |||
 Urban | 1301 (17.54) | 1041 (17.84) | 260 (16.22) | |
 Rural | 6291 (82.46) | 4884 (82.16) | 1407 (83.78) | |
Health insurance | 0.318 | |||
 No insurance | 1066 (17.50) | 844 (18.00) | 222 (15.34) | |
 NCMS | 4447 (50.90) | 3433 (50.04) | 1014 (54.60) | |
 URBMI | 551 (6.41) | 410 (6.51) | 141 (5.98) | |
 UEBMI | 1528 (25.19) | 1238 (25.45) | 290 (24.08) | |
Movement area | 0.077 | |||
 Across province | 3650 (66.87) | 2867 (67.60) | 783 (63.71) | |
 Across city | 2330 (23.23) | 1838 (23.00) | 492 (24.23) | |
 Across county | 1612 (9.90) | 1220 (9.40) | 392 (12.05) | |
Duration of migration (year), | 4.30 | 3.98 | 5.66 | < 0.001 |
Plans for long-term residence (>  5 years) | 0.195 | |||
 Yes | 5072 (63.02) | 3940 (62.59) | 1132 (64.85) | |
 No | 740 (9.60) | 565 (9.31) | 175 (10.84) | |
 Not decided yet | 1780 (27.39) | 1420 (28.10) | 360 (24.31) | |
Regions | < 0.001 | |||
 East | 3286 (77.90) | 2716 (79.23) | 570 (72.12) | |
 Central | 1632 (7.05) | 1219 (6.70) | 413 (8.61) | |
 West | 2674 (15.05) | 1990 (14.07) | 684 (19.27) | |