Table 1.
Descriptive Characteristics of the Samples
| Spouses |
Adult children |
Children-in-law |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Age of caregiver | 69.80 | 4.03 | 51.08 | 5.71 | 47.15 | 3.38 |
| Age of care recipient | 73.36 | 3.59 | 78.34 | 4.00 | 76.14 | 4.36 |
| % female caregivers | 64.79 | 11.07 | 77.61 | 12.50 | 89.58 | 16.62 |
| % married caregivers | 98.77 | 2.29 | 62.29 | 13.14 | 87.82 | 22.95 |
| % employed caregivers | 14.99 | 9.18 | 53.09 | 13.20 | 59.19 | 14.98 |
| % coresiding caregivers | 96.67 | 7.01 | 50.96 | 26.08 | 46.36 | 24.20 |
| % ethnic minority | 26.37 | 25.88 | 27.23 | 25.50 | 20.27 | 24.57 |
| Length of caregiving (years) | 5.77 | 2.47 | 5.72 | 2.13 | 4.70 | 1.49 |
| Hours of caregiving per week | 56.44 | 27.23 | 27.31 | 13.78 | 12.31 | 14.44 |
| N | 28,980 | 30,739 | 4,627 | |||
Note. Only a subsample of the included studies provided exact numbers of these variables.