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

Table 5 The differences in Mental 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	255	306.82	188	302.61	0.64	0.52
Female	257	306.94	273	296.67	1.70	0.09
Age
60 to 69 years	398	314.73	401	303.83	2.30	0.02
70 years or above	114	279.49	60	267.42	1.00	0.32
Marital status
In marriage	429	313.99	374	301.29	2.73	0.01
Not-in-marriage	83	270.15	87	289.62	−1.55	0.12
Educational attainment
Primary school and below	117	283.61	310	292.72	− 1.10	0.27
Junior school and above	395	313.77	151	312.18	0.27	0.79
Mainly economic source
Oneself or spouse	437	307.23	237	291.22	2.61	0.01
Offspring or others	75	304.88	224	307.42	−0.30	0.76
Years living in local city
6 months to 1 year	35	311.04	58	313.72	0.04	0.84
One to Three years	126	312.19	112	288.95	5.87	0.02
Three to Six years	180	312.61	172	298.84	3.77	0.05
Six to Twenty years	171	296.08	119	301.88	0.49	0.49
Weight status
Low weight	14	315.88	22	289.52	1.76	0.19
Normal	281	308.37	269	288.14	10.70	< 0.01
Overweight	194	303.08	141	317.55	4.26	0.04
Obesity	23	315.31	25	318.30	0.02	0.88

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