Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups

Table 1 Number and prevalence of TB suspects by socio-demographic characteristics in rural China, 2003

Socio-demographic factors	No. of population	Number of TB suspects	Prevalence (/100,000)	X ²	P Value
	(1)	(2)
Age group				2263.502	<0.0001
<30	62400	235	376
30–44	36062	425	1178
45–59	28914	772	2669
60 & over	16614	876	5272
Sex				3.082	0.079
female	70556	1082	1533
Male	73435	1226	1669
Health insurance				30.727	<0.0001
No	129303	2005	1550
Yes	13630	297	2179
Education				689.508	<0.0001
Illiterate	25369	932	3673
Primary school	34623	774	2235
Secondary school and above	51095	470	919
Occupation				33.696	<0.0001
Farmer	80317	1692	2106
Non-farmer	30808	483	1567
Household income				24.202	<0.0001
Low	46657	854	1830
Medium	48177	691	1434
high	48604	763	1569
Colour TV holding				109.610	<0.0001
No	58804	1188	2020
Yes	85089	1119	1315
Total No. of population	143,991	2308	1602

Note:
(1) Some cases with missing value for total population were taken as missing cases: 1 missed for age group;1058 missed for health insurance; 32904 missed and unreported for education; 32866 missed and unreported for occupation; 553 missed for household income; 98 missed for colour TV holding.
(2)Some cases with missing value for suspects were taken as missing cases: 6 missed for health insurance; 131 missed and unreported for education and occupation; 2 missed for household colour TV holding.

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