Table 3.

Growth curve models of duration of children’s migration on self-rated health of older adults, CHNS 1997–2006

	All		Females		Males
	β	S.E.	β	S.E.	β	S.E.
Duration of children’s migration
Children absent in one wavea	−0.045	0.046	−0.057	0.058	−0.027	0.058
Children absent in two or more wavesa	−0.183 **	0.059	−0.174 *	0.088	−0.203 *	0.082
Age, centered	−0.024 ***	0.003	−0.022 ***	0.004	−0.025 ***	0.004
Age, centered (squared)	0 **	0	0.001 *	0	0	0
Children absent in one wave × age	−0.082	0.055	−0.063	0.077	−0.092	0.068
Children absent in two or more waves × age	0.010	0.007	0.007	0.008	0.014	0.009
Returneda	0.002	0.011	0.005	0.015	−0.001	0.017
Returned × age	−0.007	0.009	−0.019	0.012	0.006	0.012
Constant	2.210 ***	0.089	2.249 ***	0.104	2.133 ***	0.121
Random effects – variance components
Level 1: Within-person	0.469 ***	0.144	0.492 ***	0.020	0.443 ***	0.018
Level 2: In linear growth rate	0 ***	0	0 ***	0	0 ***	0
Level 2: In intercept	0.080 ***	0.013	0.075 ***	0.017	0.080 ***	0.016
Log pseudolikelihood	−4438		−2336		−2092
N	3,983		2,067		1,916

Note: This model also controls for older adults’ educational attainment, living arrangement, health behaviors, resources, and location.

^*p<.05,

^**p<.01,

^***p<.001, ***p<.001,

^aReference is those who did not have migrant children.