| Hukou | Chinese household registration system |
| NCMS | New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance |
| URBMI | urban residents’ basic medical insurance system |
| URRBMI | urban and rural residents’ basic medical insurance system |
| CLDS | China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey |
| SAH | self-assessed of health status |
| CI | concentration index |
| ICC | Intra-Class Correlation Coefficient |
| M | mean value |
| SD | standard deviation |
| ID | interquartile distance |