Table 2 Summary statistics by level of health literacy on CDP
From: Health literacy and its effect on chronic disease prevention: evidence from China’s data
Sample | Health literacy | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
Adequate | Inadequate | ||
Number of observations | n = 2114 | n = 6080 | |
Variables | mean | mean | |
Key variables of interest | |||
Any chronic diseases (=1) | 0.225 | 0.273 | 0.000 |
Hypertension (=1) | 0.164 | 0.198 | 0.001 |
Heart problems (=1) | 0.021 | 0.019 | 0.437 |
Cerebrovascular disease (=1) | 0.005 | 0.007 | 0.291 |
Diabetes (=1) | 0.039 | 0.052 | 0.018 |
Cancer (=1) | 0.007 | 0.008 | 0.610 |
Other chronic diseases (=1) | 0.031 | 0.038 | 0.132 |
Adequate health literacy on CDPa (=1) | 1.000 | 0.000 | / |
Demographics | |||
Region (=1 urban) | 0.541 | 0.470 | 0.000 |
Has local hukou (=1) | 0.939 | 0.924 | 0.023 |
Gender (=1 male) | 0.484 | 0.490 | 0.659 |
Age in years | 45.236 | 50.208 | 0.000 |
1:Aged 15–44 | 0.457 | 0.301 | 0.000 |
2:Aged 45–59 | 0.360 | 0.400 | 0.002 |
3:Aged 60–69 | 0.182 | 0.299 | 0.000 |
Household size | 2.934 | 2.787 | 0.000 |
Annual income (1000 CNY) | 106.421 | 79.643 | 0.000 |
Education level | |||
1:Illiterate | 0.053 | 0.098 | 0.000 |
2:Elementary | 0.177 | 0.308 | 0.000 |
3:Middle school | 0.257 | 0.315 | 0.000 |
4:High school | 0.206 | 0.155 | 0.000 |
5:College or above | 0.307 | 0.125 | 0.000 |
Occupation | |||
1:Working in public sectors | 0.153 | 0.072 | 0.000 |
2:Farmers | 0.244 | 0.304 | 0.000 |
3:Manual labourers | 0.172 | 0.188 | 0.090 |
4:Working in private sectors | 0.220 | 0.156 | 0.000 |
5:Other | 0.211 | 0.280 | 0.000 |