Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and its inequality for households with hypertension: evidence from the rural areas of Shaanxi Province in China

Table 2 Summary statistics for independent variables

	Non-chro		Hyp		Hyp and else
	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	p-value
Food expenditure	5541	5028	5107	4873	4830	4731	0.018
Consumption expenditure	21014	16701	19223	17356	19574	16273	<0.001
Per capita consumption expenditure	4818	4153	4321	4004	4185	3607	<0.001
Score	4.37	0.18	4.32	0.20	4.23	0.26	<0.001
Time	2.32	0.95	2.30	0.97	2.40	0.99	0.090
Drinking ratio	0.10	0.25	0.07	0.21	0.04	0.18	<0.001
Gender	0.1895	0.3919	0.2373	0.4256	0.3066	0.4615	<0.001
Inpatient	0.0726	0.2595	0.146	0.3533	0.3129	0.4641	<0.001
Illness	0.121	0.3262	0.6673	0.4714	0.8044	0.397	<0.001
Elderly members	0.1354	0.3422	0.3697	0.4829	0.4235	0.4945	<0.001
Supplementary medical insurance	0.0574	0.2326	0.0702	0.2557	0.0374	0.1899	0.022
House head’s education
Illiteracy	0.1467	0.3538	0.2237	0.4169	0.2313	0.4220	<0.001
Elementary	0.3130	0.4637	0.3244	0.4684	0.3367	0.4730	0.404
Middle school	0.4083	0.4915	0.3290	0.4701	0.3129	0.4641	<0.001
High school	0.0892	0.2851	0.0804	0.2720	0.0901	0.2866	0.638
University	0.0119	0.1084	0.0083	0.0909	0.0051	0.0713	0.195
Marriage status
Single	0.0712	0.2572	0.0582	0.2343	0.0629	0.2430	0.021
Married	0.8314	0.3744	0.7800	0.4144	0.7670	0.4231	<0.01
Else-marriage	0.0974	0.2966	0.1617	0.3684	0.1701	0.3760	<0.001
Household scale
Residents < =2	0.5241	0.4994	0.6562	0.4752	0.7041	0.4568	<0.001
Residents 2-4	0.3810	0.4856	0.2551	0.4361	0.2211	0.4153	<0.001
Residents > =5	0.0950	0.2932	0.0887	0.2845	0.0748	0.2633	0.223
Migrants scale
No migrants	0.4930	0.5000	0.5055	0.5002	0.4932	0.5004	<0.001
Migrants 1-2	0.2340	0.4234	0.1959	0.3971	0.2024	0.4021	<0.001
Migrants > =3	0.2730	0.4455	0.2985	0.4578	0.3044	0.4606	0.223

Note: Univariate ANOVAs was employed for continuous variables and chi-2 test was used for category variables

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