Table 5.

High-intensity caregiving functions (continuation of Table 2)

Independent variables	Non-working	Irregular employees	Regular employees
Age and Marital status
Age	0.0187	0.0269**	−0.006
	(0.0129)	(0.0126)	(0.0169)
Married	−0.349***	0.0361	−0.0957
	(0.101)	(0.104)	(0.148)
Educational attainment
Junior high school	−0.00893	−0.101	0.0893
	(0.106)	(0.108)	(0.151)
Vocational school	−0.0298	0.190*	−0.0753
	(0.111)	(0.114)	(0.150)
Junior college or technical college	0.121	0.0536	−0.120
	(0.0921)	(0.107)	(0.156)
University	−0.0657	−0.0973	−0.157
	(0.106)	(0.0986)	(0.105)
Graduate school	−0.145	0.000837	0.284
	(0.513)	(0.388)	(0.302)
Residence
Rental housing	0.0491	0.227*	0.197
	(0.137)	(0.121)	(0.163)
Company residence	−0.371	0.560	0.254
	(0.522)	(0.425)	(0.450)
Other residences	−0.169	0.357	0.510
	(0.263)	(0.225)	(0.335)
Health status and Medical care use
Diabetes	−0.0372	−0.151	−0.0755
	(0.122)	(0.125)	(0.148)
Heart disease	0.0851	0.0306	0.320*
	(0.166)	(0.167)	(0.187)
Cerebral stroke	0.0890	0.203	−0.681
	(0.222)	(0.259)	(0.545)
Cancer	−0.0948	−0.00433	0.435
	(0.212)	(0.238)	(0.300)
Having friend/acquaintances	−0.0823	0.0586	0.121
	(0.0867)	(0.103)	(0.122)

Divorced or widowed was dropped because of collinearity

Standard errors in parentheses. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1