Table 4.

Standardized percentage of inpatient cancer care expenditure reaching given cutoff percentages of family income

Grouping criteria	Direct expenditure meeting given % income				Total expenditure meeting given % income
	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %
Age (years)
Under 45	21.4	17.1	14.3	12.9	22.9	20.0	20.0	15.7
45 to 54	41.9	32.3	27.4	22.6	51.6	41.9	33.9	27.4
55 to 64	30.0	22.0	18.0	14.0	36.0	26.0	24.0	18.0
65 to 74	56.8	43.2	43.2	38.6	59.1	50.0	43.2	43.2
75 or over	35.7	19.0	14.3	14.3	40.5	21.4	19.0	14.3
P value	0.002	0.012	0.002	0.004	0.001	0.002	0.034	0.003
Gender
Males	26.6	18.4	16.4	14.0	30.0	21.6	20.1	16.9
Females	24.3	19.7	15.6	13.6	29.3	24.4	20.7	16.1
P value	0.062	0.490	0.298	0.486	0.103	0.658	0.314	0.240
Region
Urban	22.0	16.1	14.0	12.8	26.0	19.9	17.0	14.5
Rural	31.0	23.1	19.1	15.5	35.2	27.5	25.4	19.7
P value	0.070	0.091	0.126	0.348	0.075	0.161	0.082	0.188
Type of health insurance
NCMC	27.8	18.8	15.4	12.4	31.7	23.8	21.1	16.3
CEMI	9.2	8.6	7.6	7.6	12.8	9.2	8.6	8.6
CRMI	20.5	14.8	11.4	9.1	24.3	16.8	14.8	9.1
URMI	50.1	41.9	38.6	36.0	50.1	45.6	45.6	38.6
Others	81.1	65.2	57.2	46.8	88.3	80.4	65.2	57.2
P value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Household income (quartile)
Q1	20.4	14.9	12.9	12.5	22.5	17.0	16.6	12.9
Q2	23.0	20.5	18.1	15.7	32.4	24.0	19.6	17.1
Q3	41.7	26.8	21.0	15.7	44.5	33.1	31.1	22.5
Q4	21.5	14.8	12.6	11.4	23.7	17.3	13.7	13.7
P value	0.008	0.091	0.103	0.123	0.005	0.031	0.012	0.153
Level of hospital
Township	15.4	7.7	7.7	7.7	23.1	7.7	7.7	7.7
County	31.1	20.5	17.2	14.8	37.7	24.6	21.3	17.2
Prefecture	43.4	31.9	26.5	23.9	46.9	39.8	34.5	29.2
Provence	31.4	27.1	25.7	20.0	35.7	30.0	28.6	22.9
P value	0.076	0.098	0.164	0.228	0.222	0.025	0.062	0.104
Education
No education	26.8	21.5	19.6	19.1	32.7	25.8	23.8	20.2
Primary school	21.2	15.5	14.0	11.2	23.0	18.5	16.2	13.3
Middle school	28.6	17.5	11.2	7.6	35.5	21.9	16.7	12.4
Secondary or higher school	19.4	16.0	14.5	14.5	21.0	17.9	16.0	16.0
P value	0.001	0.010	0.006	0.001	<0.001	0.003	0.003	0.019
Total	25.9	19.1	16.3	14.0	30.0	23.1	20.6	16.7

Note: NCMC new corporative medical care, CEMI city employee medical insurance, CRMI city resident medical insurance, URMI urban and rural medical insurance, the power for the differences in the percentages of inpatient cancer care expenditure reaching given cutoff percentages of family income among different groups was calculated using χ ² test