Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of independent variables
| CFPS-2012 |
CHARLS-2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Age (years) | 42.7 | 14.7 | 56.5 | 7.1 |
| Male (%) | 49.4 | — | 47.3 | — |
| Marital status (%) | ||||
| Single | 14.5 | — | 0.9 | — |
| Married/Cohabitation | 81.2 | — | 91.2 | — |
| Divorced/Widowed | 4.4 | — | 8.0 | — |
| Years of education | 7.6 | 4.7 | 5.9 | 4.4 |
| Episodic memory | 4.3 | 1.9 | 3.7 | 1.7 |
| Employed (%) | 72.8 | — | 74.0 | — |
| Family income (RMB) | 14,490 | 24,795 | 6,048 | 9,478 |
| Cadre/Party member (%) | 7.7 | — | 4.4 | — |
| Had a family member as cadre/Party (%) | 13.8 | — | — | — |
| Residence and hukou status (%) | ||||
| Rural resident with rural hukou | 51.9 | — | 57.3 | — |
| Rural-to-urban migrant | 18.7 | — | 20.2 | — |
| Rural resident with urban hukou | 4.6 | — | 2.1 | — |
| Urban resident with urban hukou | 24.9 | — | 20.4 | — |
| Region (%) | ||||
| Northeast | 14.7 | — | 7.8 | — |
| Northern coast | 12.3 | — | 14.8 | — |
| Eastern coast | 10.9 | — | 8.8 | — |
| Southern coast | 10.1 | — | 8.2 | — |
| Yellow River middle reach | 18.3 | — | 20.2 | — |
| Yangtze River middle reach | 8.8 | — | 16.8 | — |
| Southwest | 13.5 | — | 19.6 | — |
| Northwest | 11.4 | — | 3.8 | — |
| N | 23,207 | 5,928 | ||