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Table 2 Summary statistics of the rural counties

From: Ecological analysis of health care utilisation for China's rural population: association with a rural county's socioeconomic characteristics

Variable†

Maximum

3rdquartile

Median

1stquartile

Minimum

Gender composition (%)

     

- Male

54.9

52.0

51.1

50.1

46.7

- Female

53.3

50.0

48.9

48.1

45.1

Martial status (%)

     

- Single

38.4

21.5

17.5

14.0

7.7

- Married

84.2

79.7

75.3

72.0

56.2

- Widowed

3.9

0.9

0.6

0.4

0.0

- Divorced

10.9

7.3

5.9

4.9

3.7

Educational attainment (%)

     

- Illiterate & semi Illiterate

48.4

28.3

21.3

16.2

4.2

- Primary school (6 years)

50.1

35.8

30.4

26.5

19.3

- Junior high school (3 years)

55.0

44.2

37.2

29.1

5.4

- High school and/or post high school education

18.5

12.0

9.9

6.5

0.8

- University or above

1.6

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.0

Occupation (%)

     

- Management

3.7

1.2

0.7

0.5

0.0

- Professional

3.6

1.4

0.8

0.5

0.1

- Office worker

12.9

4.2

2.4

1.1

0.2

- Factory worker

5.2

0.8

0.2

0.1

0.0

- Agriculture and farming labourer

96.0

89.5

84.0

78.6

57.1

- Unemployed & semi-unemployed

14.5

6.6

3.1

0.8

0.0

- Students & retired

14.8

8.5

7.4

5.6

2.7

  1. † Number of observations = 67 counties