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Table 1 Characteristics of sample households by treatment status (N = 1522)

From: Conditional cash transfers, uptake of maternal and child health services, and health outcomes in western rural China

Observable characteristics

All sample

CCT village

Comparison village

p from test of difference

FE

PE

IE

FE

PE

IE

H0: (2) = (5)

H0: (3) = (6)

H0: (4) = (7)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

Child characteristics

 (1) Age, (months)

12.3 (5.9)

6.3 (2.7)

12.7 (2.3)

18.5 (4.0)

6.2 2.7)

12.6 (2.3)

18.7 (3.7)

0.52

0.64

0.57

 (2) Girl, (%)

726 (47.7)

82 (47.1)

75 (42.9)

63 (40.9)

186 (52.7)

168 (49.6)

152 (46.5)

0.23

0.15

0.25

 (3) First pregnancy, (%)

464 (30.5)

54 (31.0)

55 (31.4)

41 (26.6)

108 (30.6)

103 (30.4)

103 (31.5)

0.92

0.81

0.28

Mother characteristics

 (4) Age, (years)

27.7 (6.0)

27.6 (6.4)

27.9 (5.9)

28.8 (6.3)

26.9 (5.9)

27.4 (6.0)

28.1 (5.7)

0.21

0.38

0.23

 (5) Non-Han ethnicity,(%)

1010 (66.4)

113 (64.9)

111 (63.4)

96 (62.3)

242 (68.6)

234 (69.0)

214 (65.4)

0.41

0.20

0.51

 (6) Junior high school and above education, (%)

387 (25.4)

49 (28.2)

45 (25.7)

42 (27.3)

93 (26.3)

82 (24.2)

75 (22.9)

0.66

0.71

0.30

 (7) Farmer or housewife, (%)

1352 (88.8)

159 (91.4)

154 (88.0)

129 (83.8)

323 (91.5)

302 (89.1)

284 (86.9)

0.96

0.71

0.37

Household characteristics

 (8) Number of children aged 0–5 years old

1.4 (0.6)

1.4 (0.6)

1.4 (0.6)

1.4 (0.6)

1.5 (0.7)

1.4 (0.6)

1.4 (0.6)

0.82

0.74

0.83

 (9) Travel time from household to THCa more than 1 h,(%)

180 (11.8)

15 (8.6)

22 (12.6)

15 (9.7)

38 (10.8)

46 (13.6)

44 (13.5)

0.44

0.75

0.25

 (10) Subsistence allowance recipients, (%)

416 (27.3)

51 (29.3)

45 (25.7)

48 (31.2)

89 (25.2)

96 (28.3)

87 (26.6)

0.32

0.53

0.30

 (11) Households ranked the poorest quartile in terms of fixed assetsb, (%)

469 (30.8)

46 (26.4)

45 (25.7)

44 (28.6)

117 (33.1)

105 (31.0)

112 (34.3)

0.12

0.22

0.22

 (12) Number of observations

1522

174

175

154

353

339

327

   
  1. Notes:
  2. The results are from 1522 women’s interviews from the survey in 2014. The number of observations is presented in the case of binary variables or the mean in the case of continuous variables; percentage or standard deviations are presented in parentheses. FE fully eligible for the CCT program; PE partially eligible; IE ineligible
  3. a: Township health center that is the nearest health center that offers maternal and child health services
  4. b: Fixed assets are calculated by the method of principal component analysis. After extraction of the principal component, the quartile is used to divide the fixed asset that a household possesses into four levels, including the first quartile (the poorest), the second quartile (poor), the third quartile (rich), and the fourth quartile (the richest)
  5. Source: authors’ survey
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