Table 1.
Descriptive analysis of the demographic characteristics of sample (N = 25,149)
| Variable | N | % | Mean | SD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 48.24 | 15.71 | ||
| Young (16-44) | 10,130 | 40.28 | ||
| Middle (45-59) | 8194 | 32.58 | ||
| Old (≥60) | 6825 | 27.14 | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 12,593 | 50.07 | ||
| Female | 12,556 | 49.93 | ||
| Residence | ||||
| Rural | 12,449 | 49.70 | ||
| Urban | 12,650 | 50.30 | ||
| Household registration | ||||
| Agricultural account | 18,635 | 74.10 | ||
| Non-agricultural account | 6514 | 25.90 | ||
| Education | ||||
| Primary school and below | 10,864 | 43.20 | ||
| Junior middle school | 7409 | 29.46 | ||
| High school | 3749 | 14.91 | ||
| University/college and above | 3127 | 12.43 | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Never married | 2090 | 8.31 | ||
| Married with spouse present | 21,104 | 83.92 | ||
| Cohabitated | 103 | 0.41 | ||
| Divorced | 491 | 1.95 | ||
| Widowed | 1361 | 5.41 | ||
| Choice of medical institution | ||||
| Clinic | 5664 | 22.52 | ||
| Community health service station/Village clinic | 3753 | 14.92 | ||
| Community health service centre// Township hospital | 5350 | 21.27 | ||
| Special hospital | 1430 | 5.69 | ||
| General hospital | 8952 | 35.60 | ||
| Type of medical insurance | ||||
| Public medical insurance | 630 | 2.51 | ||
| Urban employee basic medical insurance | 4154 | 16.52 | ||
| Urban resident basic medical insurance | 2234 | 8.88 | ||
| Supplementary medical insurance | 164 | 0.65 | ||
| New rural cooperative medical insurance | 17,967 | 71.44 | ||
| Satisfaction with medical institutions | 3.32 | 0.97 | ||
| Trust in doctors | 6.73 | 2.38 | ||
| SSS | 6.04 | 1.86 | ||
| SRH | 1.94 | 1.21 | ||
| SGHR | 3.33 | 2.71 | ||
Note: SSS Subjective Socioeconomic Status, SGHR Sense of Gain of Health-Care Reform, SRH Self-Rate Heal, SD Standard Deviation