Table 4.
Percentage distributions of self-reported indicators of health and life satisfaction among centenarians in China, CLHLS (2008)
| Rural areas | Urban areas | Rural-Urban combined | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Two-sex | Men | Women | Two-sex | Men | Women | Two-sex | |
| Sample size | 369 | 1751 | 2120 | 319 | 974 | 1293 | 688 | 2725 | 3413 |
| Self-reported health | |||||||||
| Good | 54.61 | 51.09 | 51.78 | 57.61 | 49.78 | 51.87 | 56.00 | 50.61 | 51.82 |
| Moderate | 30.85 | 35.05 | 34.22 | 32.92 | 37.93 | 36.59 | 31.81 | 36.11 | 35.14 |
| Bad | 14.54 | 13.86 | 14.00 | 9.47 | 12.29 | 11.54 | 12.19 | 13.29 | 13.04 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Self-reported life satisfaction | |||||||||
| Good | 59.93 | 62.57 | 62.04 | 72.43 | 67.12 | 68.53 | 65.71 | 64.24 | 64.57 |
| Moderate | 34.75 | 30.89 | 31.65 | 25.10 | 28.70 | 27.74 | 30.29 | 30.08 | 30.13 |
| Bad | 5.32 | 6.54 | 6.30 | 2.47 | 4.19 | 3.73 | 4.00 | 5.67 | 5.30 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Activities of Daily Living (ADL) | |||||||||
| Active | 61.52 | 52.20 | 53.82 | 38.87 | 35.93 | 36.66 | 51.02 | 46.39 | 47.32 |
| Mild disability | 16.53 | 21.99 | 21.04 | 36.99 | 28.95 | 30.94 | 26.02 | 24.48 | 24.79 |
| Severe disability | 21.95 | 25.81 | 25.14 | 24.14 | 35.11 | 32.41 | 22.97 | 29.14 | 27.89 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Note: If none of the six ADL activities (eating, dressing, bathing, transferring, using the toilet, and continence) is impaired, the centenarian is classified as “active”; if one or two ADL activities are impaired, the centenarian is classified as “mild disability”; “severe disability” refers to those centenarians who have three or more ADL activities impaired.