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Table 2 Geographic characteristics of survey respondents (%)

From: Changes of equality of medical service utilization in China between 1993 and 2018: findings from six waves of nationwide household interview survey

 

1993

1998

2003

2008

2013

2018

Residents

Urban

25.1

25.3

25.7

26.2

48.7

51.0

Rural

74.9

74.7

74.3

73.8

51.3

49.0

Region

East

30.7

30.5

30.8

31.3

30.1

31.3

Central

23.7

22.3

22.3

22.5

27.8

27.0

West

37.6

39.7

39.3

38.5

34.2

34.0

Northeast

7.9

7.5

7.6

7.7

7.8

7.7

  1. Data source: the National Health Service Survey