Table 1.

Means and Percentages of Variables

	Men		Women
	Coresiding (38.2%)	Non-coresiding (61.8%)	Coresiding (15.2%)	Non-coresiding (84.8%)
Amount of Transfer (yuan)
Net transfer	−513	−144	309	−3
Downward transfer (from parents to children)	964	626	437	441
Upward transfer (from children to parents)	451	482	746	438
Parents’ Resources
Father’s SEI	43.5	42.4	46.5	42.3
Parents’ survival status
Both alive (%)	55.9	58.3	51.1	60.5
Only father/mother alive (%)	44.1	41.7	48.9	39.5
Respondent has siblings
Yes (%)	94.4	98.2	87.1	84.8
No (%)	5.6	1.8	12.9	5.2
Respondent’s Resources
Income in 1998 (yuan)	9,703	12,045	7,656	6,815
Education	11	11.4	11.6	10.8
SEI	40.7	44.5	44.8	42.8
Other controls
Respondent’s age	38.3	41.6	38.4	39.4
Parents’ average age	69.5	69.9	69.3	68.2
City
Shanghai (%)	35.1	32	35	29.5
Wuhan (%)	33.2	33.5	38.6	36.9
Xi’an (%)	31.7	34.5	26.4	33.6
Length of stay	36.4	35.3	35.4	33.5
N of observations	853		923

Data source: “Study of Family Life in Urban China” conducted in Wuhan, Shanghai, and Xi’an, 1999.