Table 2.
Parent characteristics by living arrangements (weighted).
| All | Living with at least one adult child |
Living alone but with one or more adult child in the country |
Living alone but without any adult child in the country |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | |||||
| Maximum Age | 69.64 (0.13) |
68.99 (0.21) |
70.54 (0.18) |
66.19 (0.42) |
0.00 |
| Single Man | 0.09 (0.00) |
0.10 (0.01) |
0.08 (0.01) |
0.08 (0.02) |
0.08 |
| Single Woman | 0.23 (0.01) |
0.27 (0.01) |
0.20 (0.01) |
0.13 (0.03) |
0.00 |
| # of Children | 3.29 (0.03) |
3.17 (0.04) |
3.49 (0.03) |
2.40 (0.09) |
0.00 |
| Urban | 0.48 (0.01) |
0.47 (0.01) |
0.49 (0.01) |
0.43 (0.03) |
0.29 |
| Maximum Education | |||||
| Illiterate | 0.25 (0.01) |
0.27 (0.01) |
0.24 (0.01) |
0.17 (0.03) |
0.00 |
| Primary | 0.45 (0.01) |
0.43 (0.01) |
0.46 (0.01) |
0.48 (0.03) |
0.29 |
| Middle School & Above | 0.30 (0.01) |
0.29 (0.02) |
0.31 (0.01) |
0.35 (0.03) |
0.21 |
| Income Wealth | |||||
| Own any House | 0.72 (0.01) |
0.45 (0.01) |
0.96 (0.00) |
0.90 (0.03) |
0.00 |
| Household Pre-transfer Income per Capita (1000 RMB) |
7981.35 (289.72) |
7871.86 (570.48) |
8056.96 (297.45) |
8090.03 (905.67) |
0.96 |
| Health | |||||
| Worse SRH is very Poor | 0.22 (0.01) |
0.22 (0.02) |
0.22 (0.01) |
0.26 (0.05) |
0.78 |
| Any ADL/IADL Difficulty | 0.37 (0.01) |
0.41 (0.02) |
0.35 (0.02) |
0.23 (0.05) |
0.00 |
| Observations | 4697 | 1980 | 2914 | 303 |
Notes:
1
Sample: CHARLS elderly households (with at least one respondent 60 or above and with any child aged 25 and above).
2
P-values of testing whether the means are equal are provided in the last column.
3
Robust standard errors in brackets.