Health-Related Quality of Life between Insured and Uninsured Households at Rural Communities of Southwestern Ethiopia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Distribution of basic characteristics of study participants by the status of health insurance in southwest Ethiopia, n = 634, October 2021.

Variables	Category	Insurance status		values
		Insured, no (%)	Uninsured no (%)
Ages	Less or equal to 30	67 (36.8)	115 (63.2)	< 0.001
	More than 30	250 (55.3)	202 (44.7)
Sex	Female	131 (53.3)	115 (46.7)	> 0.05
	Male	186 (47.9)	202 (52.1)
Education status	Elementary	292 (51.0)	280 (49.0)	> 0.05
	High school or more	25 (40.3)	37 (59.7)
Marital status	Married	289 (50.8)	280 (49.2)	> 0.05
	Others (divorced, single, and widowed)	28 (43.1)	37 (56.9)
Religion	Protestant	237 (52.4)	215 (47.6)	< 0.05
	Orthodox	80 (44.7)	99 (55.3)
	Others (Muslim and traditional)	0	3 (100.0)
Occupation	Agropastoral	268 (53.1)	237 (46.9)	< 0.05
	Others (government, merchant, privately employed)	49 (38.0)	80 (62.0)
Family number	Less than 5	77 (37.2)	130 (62.8)	< 0.001
	5 or more	240 (56.2)	187 (43.8)
Under 5 children	Yes	176 (48.0)	191 (52.0)	> 0.05
	No	141 (52.8)	126 (47.2)
Old age family member (50+)	Yes	116, 58.0	84, 42.0	< 0.05
	No	201, 46.3	233, 53.7