Table 1: Demographic, socioeconomic and health status by outpatient visits in the past month of the respondents with chronic disease of CHARLS baseline survey.

		Outpatient visits N = 4146	No outpatient visit N = 7527	Stat	P value
Gender	Male	42.2%	49.2%	20.1599	< 0.0001
	Female	57.8%	50.8%
Age	Mean ± SE	60.9 ± 0.4	60.0 ± 0.2	-2.258	0.0246
Education level	No school	27.3%	26.5%	1.8926	0.595
	Primary school	39.5%	38.6%
	Middle school	29.7%	31.7%
	College and above	3.4%	3.2%
Marital status	Married	84.1%	84.9%	0.6322	0.4265
	Others	15.9%	15.1%
Place of residence	Rural	49.90%	51.50%	0.6555	0.4182
	Urban	50.10%	48.50%
Household income	< 1500	27.9%	25.8%	3.3667	0.3385
	1500-12500	20.6%	21.8%
	12500-35000	24.9%	24.7%
	> 35000	26.6%	27.7%
Health insurance	No insurance	6.2%	6.9%	2.7123	0.4381
	Urban employee medical insurance	17.6%	15.3%
	Urban resident medical insurance	11.6%	11.7%
	New cooperative medical insurance	64.7%	66.0%
Smoking	Smoking	17.2%	25.9%	27.554	< 0.0001
	Quitted	8.5%	7.8%
	Never	74.3%	66.4%
Drinking	More than once/month	24.4%	31.2%	29.2278	< 0.0001
	less than once/month	11.0%	9.0%
	Never	64.6%	59.8%
N of chronic diseases	Mean ± SE	2.4 ± 0.04	1.9 ± 0.02	-12.68	< 0.0001
Self-reported health status	Good and above	381 (9.4%)	1398 (19.7%)	229.141	< 0.0001
	Fair	1665 (42.1%)	3803 (50.7%)
	Poor or very poor	2100 (48.5%)	2326 (29.7%)
Depressive symptoms (CESD-10)	Mean ± SE	11.0 ± 0.1	9.8 ± 0.1	-9.58	< 0.001

^*SE: Standard Error.