Table 1.
Characteristics of the sample, adults 50 years and older (n =643), rural Guatemala, 2005-2007(1)
| Economic capital | |
| Household standard-of-living score (M±SD)(2) | 0.03±0.98 |
| Social capital | |
| Frequency of church attendance in prior month (M±SD) | 3.35±6.09 |
| Lived alone 5 years prior (per cent) | 5.6 |
| Intellectual capital | |
| Father’s grades of schooling (M±SD) | 0.57±1.25 |
| Mother’s grades of schoolng (M±SD) | 0.55±1.26 |
| Own grades of schooling (M±SD) | 1.53±1.91 |
| Biological capital | |
| Z-score for height(3) (M±SD) | -2.14±0.85 |
| Reported doctor-diagnosed diabetes (per cent) | 9.80 |
| Reported doctor-diagnosed stroke (per cent) | 2.49 |
| Other demographic characteristics | |
| Age in years (M±SD) | 64.23,8.53 |
| Gender (per cent women) | 55.99 |
| Age at first marriage (M±SD) | 20.17,4.14 |
| Village of origin (per cent)(4) | |
| Conacaste | 31.10 |
| Espiritu Santo | 19.91 |
| San Juan | 22.55 |
| Santo Domingo | 26.44 |
(1)
Except for the respondents’ father’s and mother’s schooling, all other characteristics refer to those of the respondent.
(2)
Mean plus or minus its standard deviation
(3)
With reference to Dutch adults 60 years and older in 2004.
(4)
Village of origin of those participants’ biological children who took part in the original INCAP longitudal study and the 2002-2004 followup (Grajeda et al. 2005).
Source. Author’s calculations of data collected as part of the Generational Transfers Study.