Table 1.

Data on a sample of participants in China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme, distributed across nine provinces and interviewed in 2009

Province	n (%)		Hukou statusa		Gender		Age (years)
			Urban	Rural	Male	Female	<65	≥65
Liaoning	400	9.0	34	366	221	179	382	18
Heilongjiang	493	11.1	3	490	293	200	479	14
Jiangsu	459	10.3	40	419	239	220	395	64
Shandong	483	10.8	56	427	267	216	449	34
Henan	537	12.1	14	523	316	221	504	33
Hubei	499	11.2	20	479	277	222	465	34
Hunan	397	8.9	46	351	231	166	359	38
Guangxi	573	12.9	4	569	323	250	545	28
Guizhou	613	13.8	5	608	335	278	531	82
Total	4454	100.0	222	4232	2502	1952	4109	345

^a Hukou status: the formal name for China's system of household registration is ‘huji’. Within the huji system a ‘hukou’ is the registered residency status of an individual, and officially identifies a person as a resident of an area; the registration record includes identifying information such as name, parents, spouse and date of birth.