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Table 2 Percentage of poor, good, and excellent self-rated health by socioeconomic and religious factors in China and Korea

From: Associations of socioeconomic and religious factors with health: a population-based, comparison study between China and Korea using the 2010 East Asian social survey

Variable	China				Korea
Variable	Poor	Good	Exc	P-value	Poor	Good	Exc	P-value
Education				***				***
Elementary school/lower	31.4	23.9	44.7		59.7	21.0	19.3
Junior high school	13.6	25.2	61.2		30.6	33.9	35.5
Senior high school	12.4	23.1	64.5		21.4	28.8	49.8
College/higher	4.2	22.6	73.2		11.0	23.4	65.6
Employment				***				***
Not employed^a	26.2	29.2	44.6		32.5	25.8	41.7
Employed	14.5	21.2	64.3		16.2	25.6	58.2
Household income				***				***
Lowest quartile	33.0	23.5	43.5		43.8	26.7	29.5
2nd lowest quartile	20.6	22.9	56.5		17.6	27.8	54.6
2nd highest quartile	14.1	21.7	64.2		14.5	28.6	56.9
Highest quartile	9.6	24.8	65.6		13.7	20.0	66.3
Missing	13.7	29.1	57.2		23.5	25.5	51.0
Self-assessed social class				***				***
Lowest	31.7	27.6	40.7		39.0	29.5	31.5
Low	18.1	25.1	56.8		21.9	29.7	48.4
High	13.0	22.0	65.0		18.9	23.5	57.6
Highest	15.7	18.4	65.9		20.8	20.3	58.9
Religion								***
Christian	24.7	24.7	50.6		20.7	20.5	58.8
Buddhist	19.4	27.7	52.9		31.1	27.4	41.5
Other	18.4	23.8	57.8		18.6	28.5	52.9
N	3629				1351

Note: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
P-values are based on Chi-squared test statistic
^a’Not employed’ includes the unemployed, the retired, the permanently disabled out of labour force, students and housewives
^b’Others’ includes Islam, Hinduism, atheism, agnosticism, and other religions

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