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Table 2 Descriptive statistics and socioeconomic characteristics for the urban sample

From: What can we learn from China’s health insurance reform to improve the horizontal equity of healthcare financing?

Variable

2002

2007

Obs

Mean

Std. dev

Obs

Mean

Std. dev

Gender

 Male

3283

0.56

 

2755

0.49

 

 Female

2597

0.44

 

2826

0.51

 

Age, years

5880

37.47

20.18

5581

40.44

20.83

 0–14

984

7.47

4.43

788

7.72

4.28

 15–44

2705

30.96

8.10

2469

31.85

8.75

 45–59

1157

51.73

4.30

1142

51.77

4.25

 60 + 

1034

67.08

5.73

1182

69.23

6.14

Average number of household members

1974

3.46

1.47

1979

2.93

1.14

Equivalent household expenditure

1974

5924.62

6706.05

1979

8855.68

5830.61

Equivalent household OOP expenditure

1974

719.84

1852.17

1979

1184.40

2581.13

Health insurance

 None

3886

0.66

 

1918

34.37

 

 Any

1994

0.34

 

3663

65.63

 
  1. Data source: Authors’ calculations from 2003–2008 NHSS data