Table 1 Description of study variables
Variables | Description |
|---|---|
Life satisfaction | 0 = Bad, 1 = Good |
Psychological health | 0 = Depressive, 1 = Normal |
Provide financial support | 0 = No, 1 = Yes |
Receive financial support | 0 = No, 1 = Yes |
Receive instrumental support | 0 = No, 1 = Yes |
Receive emotional support | 0 = No, 1 = Yes |
Combination of receiving support | 1 = No support, 2 = Financial support, 3 = Instrumental support, 4 = Emotional support, 5 = Financial and instrumental support, 6 = Financial and emotional support, 7 = Instrumental and emotional support, 8 = Financial, instrumental and emotional support |
Age (years) | Validated age of older adult |
Gender | 0 = Male, 1 = Female |
Current residence | The current residential area of the interviewed elderly (0 = Rural, 1 = Urban) |
Current marital status | 1 = Currently married and living with spouse, 2 = Never married, separated and divorced, 3 = Widowed |
Income | Total income of the older adult’s household last year |
Self-rated economic status | How does the older rate his economic status compared with other local people? (1 = Bad, 2 = Average, 3 = Good) |
Years of schooling | Years of schooling |
Number of living children | Number of living children |
Co-residence | Whether living with adult children (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
ADL | For the last 6 months, whether limited in activities because of health problem (0 = Not limited, 1 = Limited) |
Chronic disease | Whether suffering chronic disease (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
Social security insurance | Whether having any social security and social insurance now (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
Medical insurance | Whether having any of urban employee/urban resident/new rural cooperative/commercial medical insurance now (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
Old-age insurance | Whether having any of public/private/commercial old-age insurance now (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |
Community service | Whether having any community service now (0 = No, 1 = Yes) |