Primary health care organizational characteristics associated with better accessibility: data from the QUALICO-PC survey in Quebec

Table 1 Participant characteristics

	Frequency (n)	Proportion (%)	Khi-2 (p-value)
Patients
Sex	1765^a		0.1164
Male	593	33.6
Female	1172	66.4
Age	1752^a		0.4720
18–25	100	5.7
25–34	213	12.2
35–44	249	14.2
45–54	351	20.0
55–64	393	22.4
65 and over	446	25.5
Income	1731^a		0.4777
Below average	377	21.8
About average	1011	58.4
Above average	343	19.4
Fluency in French or English	1752^a		0.3931
Fluent	1520	86.8
Sufficiently	140	8.0
Moderately	46	2.6
Little	35	2.0
Not at all	11	0.6
Education	1749^a		0.2534
No qualifications, primary, or lower secondary	275	15.7
Upper secondary education (grades 10–12)	622	35.6
Post-secondary education (college, undergraduate)	852	48.7
Employment status	1798^a		0.0340
Working	960	53.4
Retired	523	29.1
Unable to work	142	7.9
Other	192	10.7
General health status	1778^a		0.0044
Very good	416	23.4
Good	881	49.6
Fair	420	23.6
Poor	61	3.4
Chronic conditions	1759^a		0.2394
Yes	918	52.2
No	841	47.8
Family practitioners
Sex	215^a		0.5886
Male	97	45.1
Female	118	54.9
Age	211^a		0.6703
25–34	34	16.1
35–44	31	14.7
45–54	64	30.3
55 and over	82	38.9

^aTotal n are different due to different partial non-response rate to each question

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