Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of older adults by type of health insurance
| Characteristic | Health insurance (HI) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Social Security | Seguro Popular | Without HI | |
| Number of respondents | |||
| Unweighted | 8404 | 7256 | 3187 |
| Weighted | 5 156 870 | 3 106 183 | 1 789 322 |
| % | 51.3 (49.6, 53.0) | 30.9 (29.5 to 32.3) | 17.8 (16.7 to 18.8) |
| Sociodemographic characteristics | Weighted % | Weighted % | Weighted % |
| Sex* female | 54.4 (53.02, 55.5) | 52.7 (51.5, 53.9) | 51.8 (49.9, 53.6) |
| Years of age* | |||
| 60–74 | 73.4 (71.8, 74.9) | 73.7 (72.2, 75.1) | 70.7 (68.5, 72.8) |
| 75–84 | 20.6 (19.3, 21.9) | 20.7 (19.5, 22.1) | 20.7 (18.9, 22.5) |
| ≥85 | 6.0 (5.4, 6.8) | 5.6 (4.9, 6.3) | 8.6 (7.3, 10.1) |
| Ethnicity (indigenous)* | 17.3 (15.8, 18.9) | 30.3 (27.9 to 32.8) | 25.7 (23.0, 28.6) |
| Illiteracy (cannot read or write)* | 12.0 (10.9, 13.2) | 36.3 (34.5, 38.1) | 29.8 (27.6, 32.0) |
| Living without a life partner (widowed, divorced, single)* | 36.7 (35.0, 38.4) | 37.7 (35.9, 39.5) | 45.3 (42.7, 47.9) |
| Size of household,* mean (95% CI) | 3.5 (3.5 to 3.6) | 3.6 (3.5 to 3.7) | 3.7 (3.6 to 3.8) |
| Place of residence* | |||
| Rural | 9.5 (8.4, 10.6) | 46.2 (43.8, 48.6) | 26.5 (24.1, 29.1) |
| Urban | 16.0 (14.3, 17.8) | 25.0 (22.9, 22.2) | 23.0 (20.5, 25.6) |
| Metropolitan | 74.5 (72.4, 76.5) | 28.8 (26.4, 31.3) | 50.5 (47.2, 53.7) |
| High marginalisation of the place of residence* | 9.1 (8.1, 9.8) | 35.8 (33.5, 38.1) | 22.2 (19.9, 24.5) |
| Quintile of socioeconomic status* | |||
| 1st | 12.1 (11.0, 13.4) | 40.3 (38.2, 42.5) | 31.1 (28.4, 33.9) |
| 2nd | 16.8 (15.3, 18.4) | 23.6 (22.0, 25.2) | 20.4 (18.3, 22.8) |
| 3rd | 20.5 (19.1, 22.0) | 17.6 (16.2, 19.2) | 18.5 (16.5, 20.6) |
| 4th | 25.7 (24.0, 27.3) | 13.4 (12.1, 14.8) | 15.9 (14.0, 17.9) |
| 5th | 24.9 (22.6, 27.3) | 5.1 (4.3, 6.0) | 14.1 (11.7, 16.9) |
| †Health services that older adults usually attend | |||
| Social Security institutions* | 90.6 (89.3, 91.7) | 0.8 (0.5, 1.3) | 1.1 (0.7, 1.7) |
| Ministry of health, or other providers from the governmental non-contributory social HI programmes* | 3.6 (3.0, 4.3) | 87.4 (85.9, 88.8) | 33.0 (30.3, 35.8) |
| Private providers* | 16.8 (15.4, 18.3) | 22.0 (20.3, 23.7) | 66.1 (63.4, 68.8) |
| Healers, homoeopaths, etc. | 0.12 (0.03, 0.5) | 0.1 (0.02, 0.25) | 0.4 (0.17, 0.87) |
| ‡Primary sources of income | |||
| Paid work* | 21.3 (19.9, 22.8) | 26.5 (25.0, 27.9) | 28.9 (26.7, 31.3) |
| Retirement or pension* | 31.9 (30.1, 33.8) | 1.3 (1.0, 1.7) | 3.0 (2.1, 4.1) |
| Monetary support from the government programmes* | 17.4 (15.9, 19.1) | 46.6 (44.8, 48.5) | 26.5 (24.2, 28.9) |
| Monetary support from others* | 4.8 (4.2, 5.5) | 8.1 (7.1, 9.2) | 7.1 (6.0, 8.4) |
| Did not specify their source of income* | 38.0 (36.2, 39.9) | 30.3 (28.7, 31.9) | 41.6 (39.0, 44.2) |
*p<0.05.
†11.7% older adults reported more than one health service that they usually attend that was different from their HI.
‡8.4% of older adults reported more than one other source of income.