Table 1.
Distribution of study population and prevalence of poor self-rated health by key covariates among 7761 residents from 25 districts in Seoul, South Korea (2008)
| Variables | Total | Prevalence of poor self-rated health |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| N | N (%) | p Value* | |
| Individual level variables (N=7761) | |||
| Sex | <0.0001 | ||
| Male | 3547 | 599 (16.9) | |
| Female | 4214 | 1021 (24.2) | |
| Age (years) | <0.0001 | ||
| 15–19 | 536 | 17 (3.2) | |
| 20–29 | 973 | 26 (2.7) | |
| 30–39 | 1577 | 92 (5.8) | |
| 40–49 | 1425 | 185 (13.0) | |
| 50–59 | 1139 | 242 (21.2) | |
| 60–69 | 1130 | 482 (42.7) | |
| 70 or more | 981 | 576 (58.7) | |
| Job status | <0.0001 | ||
| Employed | 3199 | 293 (9.2) | |
| Unemployed | 4562 | 1327 (29.1) | |
| Education level | <0.0001 | ||
| Elementary school or less | 1143 | 664 (58.1) | |
| Junior high school | 703 | 271 (38.5) | |
| High school | 2483 | 433 (17.4) | |
| College graduate | 572 | 46 (8.0) | |
| University graduate | 2516 | 185 (7.4) | |
| Graduate school or more | 344 | 21 (6.1) | |
| Marital status | 0.151 | ||
| Married/cohabiting | 5059 | 1031 (20.4) | |
| Others | 2702 | 589 (21.8) | |
| Individual perception of district safety | <0.0001 | ||
| Safe | 6777 | 1361 (20.1) | |
| Unsafe | 984 | 259 (26.3) | |
| Household level variables (N=3665) | |||
| Household income | |||
| 1 000 000 KRW or less | 770 | ||
| 1 010 000–2 000 000 KRW | 772 | ||
| 2 010 000–3 000 000 KRW | 656 | ||
| 3 010 000–4 000 000 KRW | 510 | ||
| 4 010 000–5 000 000 KRW | 345 | ||
| Above 5 000 000 KRW | 612 | ||
| District level variables (N=25) | Mean | S.D. | Range |
| District-level perceived safety* | 0.87 | 0.08 | 0.68–0.98 |
| District-level crime rate† | 4.63 | 2.94 | 2.25–16.31 |
*p Value of the Chi-Square test comparing prevalence of poor self-rated health across different socio-demographic groups.
**District-specific proportion of people who perceived their district safe.
†Expressed in the total number of crimes in 2008/population in 2008 *100.