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Table 6 Profile of household respondents

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

Socio-economic variables (%)

Respondents

Respondents who visited the facility

All (n=1013)

Pub-C (n=445)

Pri-C (n=568)

Pri-Pub Difference

All (n=681)

Pub-C (n=299)

Pri-C (n=382)

Pri-Pub Difference

Gender

Female

60.1

59.6

60.6

1.01

59.5

59.2

59.7

0.49

Male

39.3

40.0

38.7

−1.27

40.2

40.5

40.1

−0.42

Occupation

Civil Servant

2.9

2.9

2.8

−0.10

2.6

3.0

2.4

−0.65

Formal employee

35.4

41.8

30.5

−11.34***

36.6

44.1

30.6

−13.52***

Informal employee

10.6

10.8

10.4

−0.40

9.3

10.0

8.6

−1.39

Unemployed

7.3

5.2

9.0

3.81**

7.6

4.0

10.5

6.46***

Farmer

2.9

1.8

3.7

1.90*

2.3

2.3

2.4

0.01

Retired

27.1

24.3

29.4

5.13*

29.4

24.1

33.5

9.43***

Student and preschool children

1.8

1.8

1.8

−0.04

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.04

Others

11.5

11.2

11.6

0.38

10.6

11.0

10.2

−0.83

Education

Elementary school or lower

13.7

11.2

15.7

4.43**

13.2

11.0

14.9

3.88

Middle school

29.5

27.9

30.8

2.94

28.6

26.4

30.4

3.95

High school

29.0

30.8

27.6

−3.15

29.2

31.1

27.7

−3.35

Junior college

16.6

16.9

16.4

−0.48

17.3

17.7

17.0

−0.71

College

9.8

11.0

8.8

−2.21

10.4

11.7

9.4

−2.28

Master degree

0.8

1.6

0.2

−1.40**

0.6

1.3

0.0

−1.34**

Doctorate

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.00

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.00

Monthly income

<400

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.00

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.00

400-800

12.5

8.8

15.5

6.73***

11.0

7.7

13.6

5.92**

800-1200

24.6

25.2

24.1

−1.05

26.6

27.1

26.2

−0.91

1200-1600

20.1

19.3

20.8

1.45

19.8

18.4

20.9

2.55

1600-2400

15.6

17.5

14.1

−3.44

16.6

19.7

14.1

−5.60*

2400-3000

6.5

9.0

4.6

−4.41***

5.9

9.4

3.1

−6.22

3000-4000

5.4

7.0

4.2

−2.74*

5.0

6.4

3.9

−2.43

4000-6000

2.8

2.7

2.8

0.12

3.7

3.7

4.7

1.00

6000+

1.4

0.4

2.1

1.66**

1.9

0.3

3.1

2.81***

Did not report

10.9

9.9

11.6

1.73

9.3

7.0

11.0

3.97*

Health insurance coverage

Urban employee

16.4

11.5

20.2

8.79***

16.9

11.0

21.5

10.43***

Urban residents

24.6

29.4

20.8

−8.66***

26.6

33.4

21.2

−12.24***

NCMS

1.9

2.0

1.8

−0.26

1.6

2.3

1.0

−1.29

Commercial insurance

3.7

4.9

2.6

−2.30*

2.8

3.3

2.4

−0.99

OOP

52.6

51.2

53.7

2.46

51.5

49.2

53.4

4.24

Self reported health status

Excellent

9.4

9.4

9.3

−0.11

9.1

8.7

9.4

0.73

Very good

34.0

39.8

29.4

−10.37***

32.2

36.8

28.5

−8.26**

Good

34.3

31.9

36.1

4.18

35.7

35.1

36.1

1.01

Not bad

17.0

13.9

19.4

5.43**

17.2

14.4

19.4

4.99*

Bad

5.1

4.5

5.6

1.14

5.6

4.7

6.3

1.60

  1. Notes: 1) Pub-C refers to a catchment area served by a public (government-owned) CHS; Pri-C refers to a catchment area served by a private CHS; 2) * New Cooperative Medical System; 3) ***, **, * refer to 1%, 5% and 10% statistical significance level, respectively; here we report proportion test (‘prtest’ in Stata) results (P-values) for public-private differences, rather than mean (‘ttest’ in Stata) because the ttest command relies on some distributional assumptions that may not be true for each component; 4) the summation for each category may not equal 100% because of missing values.
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