International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 2 The distribution of good health across different income groups

From: Decomposing the causes of socioeconomic-related health inequality among urban and rural populations in China: a new decomposition approach

Urban	New health score	Year	1991	1993	1997	2000	2004	2006
		Low quartile	0.4935	0.5443	0.4685	0.4407	0.4047	0.3643
		Second quartile	0.5718	0.5964	0.5238	0.4859	0.4309	0.4171
		Third quartile	0.5902	0.6185	0.5583	0.5117	0.4669	0.4566
		High quartile	0.5969	0.6327	0.5896	0.5541	0.5048	0.4787
		Mean	0.5685	0.6027	0.5439	0.5179	0.4789	0.4585
		N	2493	2375	2614	2601	3019	2879
	Original SRH score	Year	1991	1993	1997	2000	2004	2006
		Low quartile	2.6096	2.7659	2.6650	2.4651	2.5587	2.3943
		Second quartile	2.7648	2.7860	2.7230	2.6123	2.5932	2.5017
		Third quartile	2.7674	2.8217	2.7398	2.6991	2.6534	2.5580
		High quartile	2.8292	2.8358	2.7730	2.7769	2.6611	2.6650
		Mean	2.7645	2.8101	2.7326	2.6924	2.6386	2.6058
		N	2493	2375	2614	2601	3019	2879
Rural	New health score	Year	1991	1993	1997	2000	2004	2006
		Low quartile	0.5645	0.5557	0.5566	0.4994	0.4334	0.4035
		Second quartile	0.5970	0.5890	0.5946	0.5520	0.4772	0.4442
		Third quartile	0.6287	0.6242	0.6285	0.5739	0.5055	0.4897
		High quartile	0.6430	0.6502	0.6478	0.5972	0.5591	0.5427
		Mean	0.5881	0.5840	0.5990	0.5540	0.5004	0.4844
		N	5461	5190	4903	5213	5579	5612
	Original SRH score	Year	1991	1993	1997	2000	2004	2006
		Low quartile	2.7831	2.7702	2.7652	2.7019	2.5844	2.5288
		Second quartile	2.8566	2.8401	2.8379	2.7693	2.6036	2.5816
		Third quartile	2.8938	2.9034	2.9204	2.8268	2.6828	2.6244
		High quartile	2.9777	2.9659	3.0239	2.8306	2.8143	2.7930
		Mean	2.8319	2.8276	2.8617	2.7811	2.6849	2.6605
		N	5461	5190	4903	5213	5579	5612

SRH Self-rated health
SRH is defined in Table 1
The number of people in each group is 25% of the total population
The higher the score is, the better the health is

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