Are there gender differences in the trajectories of self-rated health among chinese older adults? an analysis of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)

Table 3 Main results of the pattern-mixture model

Variables		Total Sample	Male	Female
Variables		β (95 %CI)	β (95 %CI)	β (95 %CI)
*Time-invariant variables*
	Male	0.033 (-0.055 ~ 0.121)
	Primary school or above	-0.043 (-0.127 ~ 0.04)	0.004 (-0.037 ~ 0.044)	-0.054 (-0.128 ~ 0.019)
*Slope*
	Male	-0.028 (-0.251 ~ 0.194)
	Primary school or above	0.017 (-0.183 ~ 0.217)	-0.016 (-0.075 ~ 0.043)	0.035 (-0.092 ~ 0.162)
*Quadratic*
	Male	-0.039 (-0.191 ~ 0.112)
	Primary school or above	0.021 (-0.116 ~ 0.159)	0.018 (-0.053 ~ 0.088)	0.005 (-0.119 ~ 0.128)
*Time-varying variables*
*Self-rated health →dropout*
	SRH2005→ droput2008	-0.054 (-0.082~-0.027) ***	-0.065 (-0.107~-0.023) **	-0.043 (-0.080~-0.006) *
	SRH2008 → droput2011	-0.130 (-0.171~-0.089) ***	-0.194 (-0.255~-0.134) ***	-0.078 (-0.133~-0.022) **
	SRH2011 → droput2014	-0.016 (-0.093 ~ 0.061)	-0.058 (-0.172 ~ 0.056)	0.019 (-0.088 ~ 0.126)

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