Evolution in intergenerational exchanges between elderly people and their grandchildren in Taiwan; data from a multiple round cross-sectional study from 1993 to 2007

Tsai, Feng-jen; Motamed, Sandrine; Elia, Nadia; Rougemont, André C

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-639

Table 1 Personal Characteristics of elders

From: Evolution in intergenerational exchanges between elderly people and their grandchildren in Taiwan; data from a multiple round cross-sectional study from 1993 to 2007

	Total		1993		1999		2007
	n = 5264		n = 868		n = 1876		n = 2520
Characteristics	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	chi-sq	p-value
Gender
Male	2770	52.63	493	56.80	1009	53.78	1268	50.32	3.07	0.22
Female	2494	47.37	375	43.20	867	46.22	1252	49.68
Age (years)
60~69	1722	32.70	244	28.11	346	18.44	1132	44.92	1152.6	< 0.0001
70~79	2298	43.66	421	48.50	1075	57.30	802	31.83
80~89	1106	21.01	188	21.66	402	21.43	516	20.48
90~99	138	2.62	15	1.73	53	2.83	70	2.78
Education
Illiterate	1800	34.20	409	47.12	710	37.85	681	27.02	243.08	< 0.0001
Under high school	2847	54.09	346	39.86	949	50.59	1552	61.59
College and above	273	5.19	29	3.34	89	4.74	155	6.15
Can read	340	6.44	81	9.33	127	6.77	132	5.24
Ethnicity
Fuchien	3544	67.32	567	65.32	1232	65.67	1745	69.25	9.14	0.17
Hakka	894	16.99	162	18.66	307	16.36	425	16.87
Mainlander	726	13.79	115	13.25	298	15.88	313	12.42
Others	85	1.62	19	2.19	32	1.71	34	1.35
Living place
Large city	753	14.31	98	11.29	262	13.97	393	15.60	36.5	< 0.0001
Big city	661	12.56	127	14.63	236	12.58	298	11.83
Small city	1196	22.72	181	20.85	412	21.96	603	23.30
Township	1032	19.59	174	20.05	350	18.66	508	20.16
Rural area	1622	30.82	288	33.18	616	32.84	718	28.49
Partnership status
Living without partner	1972	37.45	413	47.58	1113	59.33	1766	70.07	67.34	< 0.0001
Living with partner	3291	62.53	455	52.42	763	40.67	753	29.88
Co-residence with children
No	1914	36.35	274	31.57	642	34.22	998	39.60	53.7	< 0.0001
Yes	3350	63.65	592	68.20	1234	65.78	1522	60.4
Employment status
No job	4515	85.77	745	85.83	1675	89.29	2095	83.13	61.95	< 0.0001
Full time job	582	11.06	72	8.29	158	8.42	352	14.0
Part time job	167	3.17	51	5.88	43	2.29	73	2.9
Self-reported health status
Bad to very bad	1851	35.17	235	27.07	791	42.16	825	32.7	110.14	< 0.0001
Good to normal	3291	62.53	633	72.93	1085	57.84	1695	67.3
Attitude toward NHI
Satisfaction
Very satisfied to normal					1454	77.51
Unsatisfied to very unsatisfied					154	8.21
Secured for your future health life by NHI
Not helpful					150	8.00
Very helpful to some help					1398	74.52
Others					117	6.24

#including "have no answer" and "never think about this issue"
## missing data is not shown in this table

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