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

Table 4 The differences in Physical Health score between urban-to-urban and rural-to-urban migrant old adults across socio-demographic characteristics

Variables	Urban-to-urban		Rural-to-urban		t (F)	p
Variables	n	Mean	n	Mean	t (F)	p
Gender
Male	260	310.90	191	301.04	1.33	0.18
Female	267	308.57	280	298.11	1.64	0.10
Age
60 to 69 years	411	315.85	411	305.60	2.01	0.05
70 years or above	116	287.98	60	256.12	2.40	0.02
Marital status
In marriage	443	317.46	384	303.91	2.66	0.01
Not-in-marriage	84	268.88	87	278.93	−0.80	0.43
Educational attainment
Primary school and below	122	298.06	320	292.61	0.68	0.50
Junior school and above	405	313.23	151	313.46	−0.04	0.97
Mainly economic source
Oneself or spouse	451	312.01	243	301.65	1.69	0.09
Offspring or others	76	296.13	228	296.79	−0.06	0.95
Years living in local city
6 months to 1 year	35	309.75	61	317.10	0.23	0.63
One to Three years	132	313.81	115	297.47	3.01	0.08
Three to Six years	187	319.07	176	293.26	11.12	< 0.01
Six to Twenty years	173	296.48	119	300.87	0.22	0.64
Weight status
Low weight	14	313.93	23	288.53	1.16	0.29
Normal	291	312.56	273	287.56	14.99	< 0.01
Overweight	199	305.93	142	321.64	3.87	0.05
Obesity	23	304.01	29	314.64	0.30	0.59

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