The Role and Scope of Private Medical Practice in China

Chapter 3. Result part 2
Table 4. Profile of household respondents by province and residential area
Socio-demographic
Variables
All
(N=3730)
Province
Guangdong
(N=1200)
Shanxi
(N=1200)
Sichuan
(N=1330)
Residential area
Urban
(N=1864)
Rural
(N=1866)
Gender
Female 55.5 50.5 56.1 59.4 57.1 53.8
Male 44.5 49.5 43.9 40.6 42.9 46.2
Age
Mean/SD 45.0 (15.4) 38.0 (14.1) 48.1 (14.8) 48.4 (14.9) 46.0 (16.5) 43.9 (14.1)
18-29 16.8 30.8 10.7 9.7 18.2 15.3
30-39 24.9 30.3 21.3 23.3 22.5 27.3
40-49 21.8 18.3 25.3 21.9 19.4 24.2
50-59 15.1 10.4 14.6 19.8 13.9 16.3
60-69 13.5 6.6 18.7 15.2 15.5 11.6
70+ 7.9 3.7 9.6 10.1 10.5 5.2
Educational level
No education 10.9 7.7 10.9 13.9 5.9 16.0
Primary school 25.9 22.8 18.5 35.3 15.3 36.4
Junior middle school 32.2 25.6 39.2 31.8 28.9 35.4
Senior middle school 19.5 23.6 21.5 14.0 28.0 11.0
Junior college 7.0 11.8 5.8 3.7 12.9 1.0
Bachelor degree & above 4.6 8.5 4.2 1.4 8.9 0.2
Marital status
Never married 10.8 22.5 5.8 4.8 13.2 8.4
Married 82.6 75.5 89.0 83.5 78.7 86.7
Divorced/widowed/others 6.5 2.1 5.2 11.7 8.1 4.9
(Missing) 0.1
Occupation
Government officer 2.0 3.7 1.7 0.9 3.3 0.8
Manager/ executive 13.7 21.3 12.2 8.3 25.4 2.0
Clerk/ serviceman 6.0 7.9 7.0 3.5 10.6 1.5
Self-employed 8.0 12.2 6.2 5.8 9.7 6.3
Farmer 39.5 33.3 37.7 46.7 1.1 77.8
Unemployed 10.0 8.2 8.3 13.2 15.4 4.7
Student/part timer/others 5.2 8.9 3.6 3.3 5.9 4.5
Retired 15.5 4.7 23.4 18.3 28.7 2.5
Health insurance
Yes 28.6 31.2 34.9 20.4 47.8 9.3
State health insurance 20.4 20.8 24.9 15.9 37.0 3.8
Cooperative health
insurance
2.4 0.4 6.9 0.1 0.3 4.4
Company health
insurance
5.8 10.0 3.1 4.4 10.5 1.1
No 70.5 68.2 63.5 78.9 50.9 90.0
Annual household income
(Yuan)