Does where you live matter to your health? Investigating factors that influence the self-rated health of urban and rural Chinese residents: evidence drawn from Chinese General Social Survey data

Table 2 Cross-tabulation of urban and rural residents’ self-rated health and evaluations of their living environments

Independent variables	Urban residents				Rural residents
	Unhealthy	Healthy	Chi-square	P value	Unhealthy	Healthy	Chi-square	P value
	Proportion	Proportion	Chi-square	P value	Proportion	Proportion	Chi-square	P value
Evaluation of air pollution (%)			2.870	0.090			3.805	0.051
Not serious	51.50	48.60			84.84	81.77
Serious	48.50	51.40			15.16	18.23
Evaluation of green space shortage (%)			0.030	0.862			4.174	0.041
Not serious	68.67	68.39			92.75	90.33
Serious	31.33	31.61			7.25	9.67
Evaluation of water pollution (%)			2.742	0.098			1.286	0.257
Not serious	58.50	55.68			77.36	75.34
Serious	41.50	44.32			22.64	24.66
Evaluation of freshwater resource shortage (%)			13.943	0.000			5.932	0.015
Not serious	72.50	66.54			76.59	80.73
Serious	27.50	33.46			23.41	19.27

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