Table 2.
Percentage of poor, good, and excellent self-rated health by socioeconomic and religious factors in China and Korea
| Variable | China | Korea | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Good | Exc | P-value | Poor | Good | Exc | P-value | |
| Education | *** | *** | ||||||
| Elementary school/lower | 31.4 | 23.9 | 44.7 | 59.7 | 21.0 | 19.3 | ||
| Junior high school | 13.6 | 25.2 | 61.2 | 30.6 | 33.9 | 35.5 | ||
| Senior high school | 12.4 | 23.1 | 64.5 | 21.4 | 28.8 | 49.8 | ||
| College/higher | 4.2 | 22.6 | 73.2 | 11.0 | 23.4 | 65.6 | ||
| Employment | *** | *** | ||||||
| Not employeda | 26.2 | 29.2 | 44.6 | 32.5 | 25.8 | 41.7 | ||
| Employed | 14.5 | 21.2 | 64.3 | 16.2 | 25.6 | 58.2 | ||
| Household income | *** | *** | ||||||
| Lowest quartile | 33.0 | 23.5 | 43.5 | 43.8 | 26.7 | 29.5 | ||
| 2nd lowest quartile | 20.6 | 22.9 | 56.5 | 17.6 | 27.8 | 54.6 | ||
| 2nd highest quartile | 14.1 | 21.7 | 64.2 | 14.5 | 28.6 | 56.9 | ||
| Highest quartile | 9.6 | 24.8 | 65.6 | 13.7 | 20.0 | 66.3 | ||
| Missing | 13.7 | 29.1 | 57.2 | 23.5 | 25.5 | 51.0 | ||
| Self-assessed social class | *** | *** | ||||||
| Lowest | 31.7 | 27.6 | 40.7 | 39.0 | 29.5 | 31.5 | ||
| Low | 18.1 | 25.1 | 56.8 | 21.9 | 29.7 | 48.4 | ||
| High | 13.0 | 22.0 | 65.0 | 18.9 | 23.5 | 57.6 | ||
| Highest | 15.7 | 18.4 | 65.9 | 20.8 | 20.3 | 58.9 | ||
| Religion | *** | |||||||
| Christian | 24.7 | 24.7 | 50.6 | 20.7 | 20.5 | 58.8 | ||
| Buddhist | 19.4 | 27.7 | 52.9 | 31.1 | 27.4 | 41.5 | ||
| Other | 18.4 | 23.8 | 57.8 | 18.6 | 28.5 | 52.9 | ||
| N | 3629 | 1351 | ||||||
Note: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
P-values are based on Chi-squared test statistic
a’Not employed’ includes the unemployed, the retired, the permanently disabled out of labour force, students and housewives
b’Others’ includes Islam, Hinduism, atheism, agnosticism, and other religions