Characterizing rurality using the All of Us Research Program data
Fig 5
ECDF Plot showing the cumulative distribution of Healthcare Affordability along the rurality scale.
At 0% rural, we observe that the two curves uniformly rise steeply, indicating that a significant proportion of the participants have similar levels of healthcare affordability. The two curves then split at different percentiles, indicating a disparity in healthcare affordability with respect to the rural percentage. The orange curve (difficulty affording care) indicates that as the percentile increases, those experiencing difficulty affording care tend to come from higher rural percentages when compared to those with no difficulty affording care (blue curve).