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Table 1 Key features of the respondents at baseline

From: Impact of social participation on health among middle-aged and elderly adults: evidence from longitudinal survey data in China

 

All

Men

Women

(N = 9645)

(N = 4561)

(N = 5084)

Proportion (%)

 Marital status

  Married

88.7

91.3

86.3

  Never married

0.7

1.5

0.0

  Divorced/Separated

10.6

7.2

13.6

 Family arrangement

  Living with children

28.2

23.5

32.4

  Living with parents

17.7

14.5

20.5

 Socioeconomic status at baseline

  Educational attainment

   

   Primary school or below

63.5

53.3

72.6

   Junior high school

22.6

28.7

17.2

   Senior high school

11.1

13.9

8.7

   College or above

2.8

4.1

1.6

  Urban hokou

41.6

40.6

42.4

  Work status

   Non-working

31.9

25.5

37.6

   Employed

17.3

23.4

11.8

   Self-employed

6.9

9.2

4.9

   Others

54.2

56.9

51.7

  Experienced retirement

28.2

23.5

32.4

 Living environment

  Own house

87.2

87.7

86.8

  Having running water

62.0

61.3

62.5

 Health care insurance

  Public health insurance

91.7

92.5

91.0

  Private health insurance

3.0

3.1

2.9

 Regions

  East

30.9

31.1

30.8

  Central

33.9

34.4

33.3

  West

17.0

16.9

17.1

  Northeast

18.2

17.5

18.8

 Age (M, years)

58.7

59.5

58.1

Household consumption

7981

8239

7749

 (M; per capita, annual, RMB)

  1. Note: a East = Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong, Hainan; Central = Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hernan, Hubei, Hunan; West = Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang; Northeast = Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang