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Table 10 Comparison of community health station staff in Weifang and City Y

From: Contracting with private providers for primary care services: evidence from urban China

Indicators (%)

Weifang

City Y

All

Pub-C

Pri-C

Pri-Pub Difference

All

Pub-C

Pri-C

Pri-Pub Difference

Gender

Female

75.4

77.6

69.3

−8.29***

76.1

80.5

72.6

−7.93*

Male

24.6

22.4

30.7

8.29***

23.9

19.5

27.4

7.93

Age

0-25

24.1

18.2

40.4

22.21***

24.3

22.2

26.1

3.92

26-39

50.2

53.0

42.5

−10.46***

36.6

38.9

34.8

−4.14

40-59

23.1

26.2

14.6

−11.54***

29.6

34.6

25.7

−8.94**

60+

1.2

0.4

3.5

3.11***

9.9

4.9

13.9

9.05***

Working experience, total (years)

0-3

23.0

17.1

39.4

22.31***

24.3

21.6

26.5

4.90

4-9

17.7

16.8

20.2

3.39

16.4

10.3

21.3

11.03***

10-19

35.1

39.8

22.0

−17.87***

22.7

30.3

16.5

−13.75***

20+

22.5

24.7

16.7

−7.93***

35.9

36.8

35.2

−1.54

Working years in any CHS

0-3

79.7

76.9

87.5

10.59**

65.3

58.4

70.9

12.49**

4-9

8.5

9.5

5.9

−3.56**

21.4

20.5

22.2

1.63

10-19

3.6

4.2

2.1

−2.08*

6.7

14.1

0.9

−13.18***

20+

0.6

0.4

1.0

0.67

3.6

4.3

3.0

−1.28

Working years in the current CHS

0-3

60.5

53.6

79.4

25.84***

58.3

41.6

71.7

30.12***

4-9

10.8

10.1

12.5

2.43

14.5

14.1

14.8

0.73

10-19

14.7

18.6

4.2

−14.40***

14.9

29.2

3.5

−25.71***

20+

6.8

8.6

1.7

−6.85***

5.5

12.4

0.0

−12.43***

Education

Middle health school

39.2

39.2

39.4

0.18

42.9

42.7

43.0

0.34

Junior college

46.0

44.8

49.5

4.72

38.1

36.8

39.1

2.37

Bachelor

14.5

15.3

12.2

−3.10

17.1

19.5

15.2

−4.24

Master and above

0.2

0.1

0.3

0.22

0.2

0.5

0.0

−0.54

Technical Title

Primary

55.5

55.2

56.1

0.85

46.3

36.8

53.9

17.16***

Junior

29.0

31.0

23.7

−7.28**

33.7

45.4

24.3

−21.06***

Senior

4.6

4.8

4.2

−0.62

11.6

9.7

13.0

3.31

No

10.5

8.1

17.1

8.98***

7.2

7.6

7.0

−0.61

Annual income (RMB)

<800

9.2

9.9

7.3

−2.54

7.2

13.5

2.2

−11.34***

800-1000

14.8

12.9

20.2

7.31***

13.3

8.6

17.0

8.31**

1000-1500

18.6

18.8

17.8

−1.07

21.2

11.9

28.7

16.80***

1500-2000

15.9

16.3

14.6

−1.67

18.3

17.3

19.1

1.83

2000-3000

8.1

9.0

5.6

−3.40*

10.4

15.7

6.1

−9.59***

>3000

31.7

31.0

33.8

2.82

27.5

30.3

25.2

−5.05

Satisfaction with current job

Very satisfied

17.4

14.7

25.1

10.42***

16.4

13.5

18.7

5.18

Satisfied

45.2

43.1

50.9

7.76**

57.1

43.2

68.3

25.02***

Dissatisfied

34.5

38.6

23.3

−15.21***

22.7

37.8

10.4

−27.40***

Very dissatisfied

2.6

3.2

1.0

−2.12*

3.1

5.9

0.9

−5.08***

CHS staffs’ average self-assessed degree of knowledge about residents

Knowing residents in the served area#

69.4

66.8

76.6

9.81***

71.4

65.8

76.0

10.23***

Willingness of residents to choose this CHS as the first visit#

64.0

62.0

69.5

7.51***

55.8

50.4

60.4

10.02***

  1. Notes: 1) ***, **, * refer to 1%, 5% and 10% statistical significance level, respectively; 2) #here we report the averages of CHC staffs’ self assessed degree of knowing residents in the served area and willingness of residents to choose this CHS as the first visit and relevant mean test (‘ttest’ in Stata) results (P-values) for public-private differences, since staff answered with a continuous response (between 1-100%) for these two questions; 3) the summations for each category may not equal 100% because of missing values.