Table 2.
Household and village characteristics
| Variables | Values | |
|---|---|---|
| Independent Variables | ||
| Household level - household head characteristics (N = 3,319) | ||
| Gender | Male (%) | 83.9 |
| Female (%) | 16.1 | |
| Age (Mean, SD†) | 49.9 (±12.2) | |
| Ethnicity | Han (%) | 96.1 |
| Other (%) | 3.9 | |
| Education level | None (%) | 19.0 |
| Primary school (%) | 39.3 | |
| Junior high school (%) | 35.1 | |
| Senior high school or above (%) | 6.7 | |
| Occupation | Farmer (%) | 85.6 |
| Non-farmer (%) | 8.4 | |
| Unemployed (%) | 5.8 | |
| Household level - income, health status, insurance status and hospitalization (N = 3,319) | ||
| Per capita income (1,000 Yuan, median and IQR‡) | 4.9 (3.3-7.4) | |
| Size (Mean, SD) | 3.3 (±1.4) | |
| Proportion of members aged over 65 (%) | 0.1 (±0.3) | |
| Proportion of Members aged under 5 (%) | 0.03 (±0.09) | |
| Members with serious chronic illness (%) | 31.0 | |
| Hospitalized members (%) | 17.1 | |
| NRCMS participant (%) | 91.2 | |
| Village level (N = 97) | ||
| Number of households, median and IQR | 23.8 (14.1-36.4) | |
| Per capita annual income (×1,000 Yuan, Mean, SD) | 2.0 (±1.3) | |
| Adult illiteracy rate (%) | 25.8 (±14.3) | |
| Distance from village to town health center (Kilometers, median and IQR) |
6 (3.0-10.0) | |
| Distance from village to county hospital (Kilometers, median and IQR) |
48 (29-75) | |
| With village health clinic (%) | 53.6 | |
| Mountainous village (%) | 45.4 | |
| Dependent Variables | ||
| Average percentage of catastrophic health payment(N = 3,319) | 18.4 | |
| Average percentage of households impoverished by health spending (N = 3,077)* | 12.0 | |
Δ NRCMS: New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
* Number of non-poor households before health payment
† SD: Standard deviation
‡ IQR: Inter-quarter Range