Table 1. Socio-demographic, clinical and treatment accessibility related characteristics of notified people with TB in the 30 selected counties of China between July and December, 2018.
| Characteristics | N | (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2294 | (100.0) | |
| Socio-demographic | |||
| Age in years | |||
| <15 | 9 | (0.4) | |
| 15–44 | 758 | (33.0) | |
| 45–64 | 883 | (36.3) | |
| ≥65 | 694 | (30.3) | |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 1565 | (68.2) | |
| Female | 729 | (31.8) | |
| Occupation | |||
| Farmers and herdsmen | 1055 | (46.0) | |
| Semi-skilled employee | 190 | (8.3) | |
| Salary employee | 238 | (10.4) | |
| Unemployed | 597 | (26.0) | |
| Studying | 115 | (5.0) | |
| Others | 99 | (4.3) | |
| Migrant* | |||
| No | 2182 | (95.1) | |
| Yes | 112 | (4.9) | |
| Clinical | |||
| Classification | |||
| Bacteriologically confirmed PTB | 1248 | (54.4) | |
| Clinically diagnosed PTB | 840 | (36.6) | |
| Pleurisy | 206 | (9.0) | |
| Category | |||
| New | 2164 | (94.3) | |
| Previously treated | 130 | (5.7) | |
| Treatment accessibility | |||
| Treatment initiation interval (days)# | |||
| Zero | 2191 | (95.5) | |
| ≥ One | 103 | (4.5) | |
Column percentages
TB–tuberculosis; PTB–pulmonary TB; HIV–human immunodeficiency virus
* Migrant defined as patients staying in the same prefecture for less than six months
# Time interval from diagnosis to treatment, the median interval was zero days and used as cut-off to categorize