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Table 4 Association between factors and CHE incidence in rural and urban households with NCD patients

From: Urban-rural differences in catastrophic health expenditure among households with chronic non-communicable disease patients: evidence from China family panel studies

Variables

Urban areas

Rural areas

dy/dx

Std. Err.

dy/dx

Std. Err.

Household income

−0.0328**

0.0044

−0.0281**

0.0044

Household size

−0.0362**

0.0032

−0.0457**

0.0030

Inpatient, yes

0.1720**

0.0087

0.1871**

0.0091

Household members aged<=5, yes

−0.0093

0.0153

0.0330*

0.0141

Household members aged> = 60, yes

0.0604**

0.0099

0.0778**

0.0107

Geographic location

 East1

 Central

−0.0059

0.0107

−0.0225

0.0128

 West

−0.0285*

0.0130

−0.0699**

0.0127

Gender of household head, male

−0.0018

0.0092

0.0095

0.0102

Education of household head

 Illiterate1

 Primary school

−0.0359**

0.0131

−0.0493**

0.0124

 Middle school

−0.0799**

0.0128

−0.0673**

0.0137

 High school and above

− 0.1035**

0.0144

− 0.0596**

0.0196

Marriage of household head, married

−0.0150

0.0131

0.0069

0.0155

Self-assessed health status of household head, healthy

−0.0804**

0.0091

−0.0724**

0.0098

Basic medical insurance

 No medical insurance1

 UEBMI

−0.0160

0.0170

−0.0074

0.0342

 URBMI

−0.0059

0.0176

−0.0280

0.0395

 NRCMS

0.0067

0.0161

0.0328

0.0214

 Two kinds of medical insurance

−0.1214

0.0626

−0.0966

0.1068

SMI, yes

−0.0889*

0.0451

− 0.0918

0.0684

  1. Note: 1 Reference group; UEBMI Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance; URBMI Urban Residents Basic Medical Insurance; NRCMS New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme; SMI Supplementary medical insurance; The dy/dx in brackets indicates the marginal effect; * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01