Table 2 The results of descriptive analysis.

From: Can provincial-pooling of urban and rural resident basic medical insurance improve the health performance of migrant population?

Variables

Definition

Treatment group

Control group

T-test

Provincial-pooling of URRBMI

implementing the provincial-pooling of URRBMI = 1, no implementing the provincial-pooling of URRBMI = 0

0.037 (0.188)

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Self-rated health

healthy=1, unhealthy=0

0.671 (0.471)

0.598 (0.490)

0.073**

Neighbourhood assistance

very little=1, relatively little=2, average=3; relatively much=4, very much=5

3.332 (1.083)

3.229 (1.061)

0.103

Social equity

completely unfair=1, relatively unfair=2, average=3, relatively fair=4, completely fair=5

3.237 (0.936)

3.201 (0.950)

0.036

Life happiness

very unhappy=1, relatively unhappy=2, average=3, relatively happy=4, very happy=5

3.753 (0.954)

3.653 (0.925)

0.099*

Trust in the majority

very disagree=1, disagree=2, agree=3, very agree=4

2.841 (0.532)

2.765 (0.560)

0.076**

Age

continuous variable

38.83 (11.17)

39.35 (11.25)

−0.517

Gender

male=1, female=0

0.580 (0.495)

0.546 (0.498)

0.033

Marriage

with spouse=1, without spouse=0

0.760 (0.428)

0.839 (0.367)

−0.080***

Household registration

rural=1, urban=0

0.781 (0.414)

0.931 (0.253)

−0.150***

Education

illiteracy=0, elementary school=1, middle school=2, high school= 3, undergraduate=4, postgraduate=5

2.322 (1.191)

1.970 (0.936)

0.351***

Social status

range: 1–10, mean from low to high

4.148 (1.776)

4.195 (1.709)

−0.047

Income

natural logarithm of annual income

10.026 (2.125)

9.502 (2.434)

0.524***

Whether to smoke

yes=1, no=0

0.417 (0.494)

0.351 (0.477)

0.066**

Whether to drink

yes=1, no=0

0.283 (0.451)

0.241 (0.428)

0.041

Whether to exercise

yes=1, no=0

0.329 (0.471)

0.225 (0.418)

0.104***

The number of siblings

continuous variable

2.459 (1.759)

2.953 (1.835)

−0.493***

The per capita GDP

natural logarithm of per capita GDP of each province

11.201 (0.372)

10.863 (0.372)

0.338***

The region they belong to

east=1, middle=2, west=3, northeast=4

2.286 (0.960)

1.906 (0.916)

0.380***

Observation

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  1. () reports standard deviation. T-test: reflects whether there is a significant difference in the mean of variables between the treatment group and the control group. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1.
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