Table 1.

Basic information for the national database

	Statistic Year
	2014	2015	2016
Total number of insurance utility
national level (people × times × 1,000,000)	571	597	666
sample (people × times × 1,000,000)	49.57	41.79	37.26
sample cities	77	77	82
direct-controlled municipality	4	4	4
provincial citya	31	31	31
prefecture-level city	42	42	47
inpatient (people × 1,000,000)	1.36	1.13	1.47
outpatient (people × 1,000,000)	4.86	4.81	6.53
outpatient (people × time × 1,000,000)	40.67	37.22	35.78

Note: a) there are 34 provinces in China, data of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan were not included in the database as different insurance type