Impact of pilot public hospital reform on efficiencies: a DEA analysis of county hospitals in East China, 2009–2015

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics of Socioeconomics for Pilot and Non-pilot hospitals during 2009–2015 (after propensity score matching specification)

Variables	Pilot Hospitals (N = 190)		Non-Pilot Hospitals (N = 175)
Variables	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
GDP	356.0	246.1	268.4	344.2
Population	73.3	31.3	67.0	44.2
GDP per capita	4.9	2.7	3.9	2.8
Government revenue	26.7	20.4	18.7	28.0
Government expenditure	37.1	22.5	31.3	27.6
Services industry proportion (%)	35.0	7.8	35.5	6.9
The number of beds in healthcare institution	32.3	12.2	31.3	11.3
Share of Education Enrollment in Population (‱)	8.7	4.4	8.4	6.0

Notes: Pilot hospitals are defined as hospitals located in the counties where the first phase of pilot reform was implemented in 2012. Socioeconomic status variables include GDP per capita (0.1 billion RMB units); Population, regional permanent population (10, 000 people); GDPPC, GDP per capita (10, 000 RMB units); Government revenue and expenditure (0.1 billion RMB units); The output in the services industry as a share of GDP; The number of beds in healthcare institutions in population (10, 000); The share of Secondary school and primary school enrollment in regional permanent population (10, 000)

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