Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of respondents (n = 42,644)
| Older adult Characteristics |
Hospital utilization | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unutilized (n = 41,053) |
Utilized (n = 1,591) |
||
| Type of residence | < 0.001 | ||
| Urban | 11.8% | 20.9% | |
| Rural | 88.2% | 79.1% | |
| Age (mean) | (37.15) | (42.42) | < 0.001 |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 50.9% | 38.0% | |
| Female | 49.1% | 62.0% | |
| Marital status | < 0.001 | ||
| Never in union | 22.7% | 11.4% | |
| Married/living with a partner | 70.2% | 78.7% | |
| Divorced/widowed | 7.0% | 9.9% | |
| Education level | < 0.001 | ||
| No formal education | 16.0% | 10.4% | |
| Primary | 58.4% | 53.2% | |
| Secondary | 19.2% | 24.8% | |
| Higher | 6.4% | 11.7% | |
| Employment status | < 0.001 | ||
| Unemployed work | 29.8% | 34.1% | |
| Employed | 70.2% | 65.9% | |
| Wealth status | < 0.001 | ||
| Poorest | 34.9% | 23.4% | |
| Poorer | 20.7% | 17.2% | |
| Middle | 16.8% | 21.2% | |
| Richer | 14.0% | 16.8% | |
| Richest | 13.6% | 21.4% | |
| Health insurance | < 0.001 | ||
| Uninsured | 28.5% | 17.3% | |
| Government-run insurance | 70.8% | 81.6% | |
| Private-run insurance | 0.5% | 0.7% | |
| Government-run and private-run insurance | 0.2% | 0.3% | |
| Travel time | < 0.001 | ||
| ≤ 1 h | 41.4% | 68.0% | |
| > 1 h | 58.6% | 32.0% | |