Aging village doctors in five counties in rural China: situation and implications

Table 1 Description of variables used for multivariate regression analyses

	N	Mix/Max
Dependent variables
Outpatient numbers (per month)^a	1,474	10–1,205
Basic medical income (per month)^b	1,664	15–40,000
Expected pension (per month)^c	1,530	100–10,000
Independent variables
Male (vs. female)	1,927	0–1
Ageing (vs. non-ageing)	1,927	0–1
Junior college or above (vs. secondary school or below)^d	1,927	0–1
Licensed (assistant) doctors (vs. barefoot doctors)	1,927	0–1
Director of village clinics (vs. non-director)	1,927	0–1
Prior to employment (vs. on-the-job training)	1,800	0–1
County	1,927	–
Changshu	333	0–0
Liyang	316	0–1
Yongchuan	588	0–1
Mianzhu	358	0–1
Jingning	332	0–1

^aVillage doctors’ self-reported monthly workload.
^bProfits from the medical services, not including the public health subsidy and income from others channels (agriculture and so on).
^cSelf-reported excepted pension which can fulfill their basic living standard.
^dTo simplify the analysis, junior high school or less, high school, and technical secondary school were classified as technical secondary school or below; junior college and college or above were classified as junior college or above.

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