Empirical Analysis of Beneficial Equality of the Basic Medical Insurance for Migrants in China

Table 1

Definition and statistics for the selected variable.

Variable and type	Definition	Mean	SD	Percent (%)	Overall
Total medical expenditure of hospitalization (continuous variable)	Last hospitalized medical expenses (yuan)	9342.037	14297.87	—	2165
Reimbursement (continuous variable)	Reimbursement amount for basic medical insurance	4793.706	8152.47	—	2165
Income (category variable)	The average monthly total income of household locally and divided into 5 equal parts from low to high: lowest = 0 (reference); lower = 1; middle = 2; higher = 3; highest = 4	—	—	23.36 (0)	35329 (0)
				16.97 (1)	25665 (1)
				21.18 (2)	32033 (2)
				18.49 (3)	27961 (3)
				19.99 (4)	30219 (4)
Working status (category variable)	Employment status: employee = 1; employed = 2; self-employed = 3; other = 0 (reference)	—	—	1.79 (0)	2710 (0)
				57.93 (1)	87599 (1)
				8.77 (2)	13261 (2)
				31.50 (3)	47638 (3)
Marital status (category variable)	First married or remarried = 1; divorced or widowed = 2; unmarried = 0 (reference)	—	—	20.78 (0)	31421 (0)
				77.04 (1)	116496 (1)
				2.18 (2)	3291 (2)
Education (category variable)	Education level: primary school or below = 0 (reference); junior high school = 1; senior high school = 2; specialist college = 3; college or above = 4	—	—	13.07 (0)	19767 (0)
				53.02 (1)	80173 (1)
				20.54 (2)	31053 (2)
				8.66 (3)	13089 (3)
				4.71 (4)	7126 (4)
Age	Range of 15 to 59 years old	28.871	9.574	0.237	2.390
Male (category variable)	Female = 0 (reference); male = 1	0.630	0.483	36.96 (0)	55887 (0)
				63.04 (1)	95321 (1)
Hukou (category variable)	Rural = 0 (reference); nonrural = 1	0.148	0.355	85.21 (0)	128841 (0)
				14.79 (1)	22367 (1)
Com_insurance (category variable)	Insured by commercial medical insurance, com_insurance = 1; other, com_insurance = 0 (reference)	—	—	95.37 (0)	144192 (0)
				4.63 (1)	6996 (1)

Note. The numbers in parentheses in columns (5) and (6) represent the category in the table.