Assessment of health inequality between urban-to-urban and rural-to-urban migrant older adults in China: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Summary of the socio-demographic characteristic between urban-to-urban and rural-to-urban migrant old adults (N = 1000)

Variables	Urban-to-urban		Rural-to-urban		Total		χ²	p
Variables	n	%	n	%	n	%	χ²	p
Gender							8.01	< 0.01
Male	260	49.34	191	40.38	451	45.10
Female	267	50.66	282	59.62	549	54.90
Age							14.95	< 0.01
60 to 69 years	411	77.99	413	87.32	824	82.40
70 years or above	116	22.01	60	12.68	176	17.60
Marital status							1.06	0.3
In marriage	443	84.06	386	81.61	829	82.90
Not-in-marriage	84	15.94	87	18.39	171	17.10
Educational attainment							201.98	< 0.01
Primary school and be low	122	23.15	321	67.86	443	44.30
Junior school and above	405	76.85	152	32.14	557	55.70
Mainly economic source							135.88	< 0.01
Oneself or spouse	451	85.58	244	51.59	695	69.50
Offspring or others	76	14.42	229	48.41	305	30.50
Years living in local city							15.74	< 0.01
6 months to 1 year	35	6.64	62	13.11	97	9.70
1 to 3 years	132	25.05	115	24.31	247	24.70
3 to 6 years	187	35.48	176	37.21	363	36.30
6 to 20 years	173	32.83	120	25.37	293	29.30
Weight status							9.22	0.03
Low weight	14	2.66	23	4.90	37	3.71
Normal	291	55.22	274	58.42	565	56.73
Overweight	199	37.76	143	30.49	342	34.34
Obesity	23	4.36	29	6.18	52	5.22

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