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Table 1 Construction of regional factors

From: Awareness of HIV/AIDS and its routes of transmission as well as access to health knowledge among rural residents in Western China: a cross-sectional study

Province

Category a

Area (10,000 km2) e

Population (million) f

Proportion of rural population (%)f

Per capital annual net income of rural households (RMB) g, b

Proportion of minority population (%) f, c

Cumulative cases of HIV/AIDS (in thousands of cases) h, d

Gansu

Province

42.58

25.99

64.1

3909.37(B)

9.43%(c)

1–5(1)

Guangxi

A.R.

23.76

47.96

60.0

5232.33(B)

37.18%(b)

50–100(3)

Guizhou

Province

17.61

35.30

66.2

4145.35(A)

36.11%(b)

10–50(2)

Inner Mongolia

A.R.

118.3

25.11

44.5

6641.56(C)

20.46%(b)

1–5(1)

Ningxia

A.R.

6.64

6.68

52.0

5409.95(B)

35.42%(b)

less than 1(1)

Qinghai

Province

72.23

5.88

55.3

4608.46(A)

46.98%(b)

1–5(1)

Shaanxi

Province

20.58

37.93

54.3

5027.87(B)

0.51%(c)

5–10(2)

Sichuan

Province

48.6

82.04

59.8

6128.55(C)

6.1%(c)

50–100(3)

Tibet

A.R.

120.22

3.24

77.3

4904.28(A)

91.83%(a)

less than 1(1)

Xinjiang

A.R.

166

23.60

57.2

5442.15(B)

59.9%(b)

10–50(2)

Yunnan

Province

39.4

47.42

65.3

4721.99(A)

33.37%(b)

100 and above (3)

  1. a A.R.: Autonomous Region
  2. b Regional rural residents’ economic status (RMB): A. Low-income area (less than 5000); B. Middle-income area (5000-6000); C. High-income area (6000 and above)
  3. c Regional ethnic composition: a. Han-dominated area (less than 10%); b. Mixed area (30–60%); c. Minority-dominated area (90% and above)
  4. d Regional HIV prevalence (in thousands of cases): 1. Low-prevalence area (less than 5); 2. Middle-prevalence area (5–50); 3. High-prevalence area (50 and above)
  5. e The State Council of the People’s Republic of China. http://english.gov.cn/archive/
  6. f The Sixth National Population Census, 2010
  7. g China National Bureau of Statistics. China Statistical Yearbook 2012[M]. Beijing: China Statistic Press; 2012
  8. h Long Yuqin. Picture: Distribution map of provincial cumulative HIV/AIDS (number of deaths included) until Oct 2014. China HIV map: homosexual transmission accounts for more than 80%. http://news.ifeng.com/a/20141202/42619936_0.shtml