Table 4.

Growth curve models of gender composition of migrant children on self-rated health of older adults, CHNS 1997–2006

	All		Females		Males
	β	S.E.	β	S.E.	β	S.E.
Gender composition of migrant children
Migrant sons only	−0.152 **	0.047	−0.201 **	0.062	−0.114 †	0.059
Migrant daughters only	0.138 †	0.083	0.211 †	0.121	0.071	0.102
Migration of both genders	−0.114	0.072	−0.087	0.092	−0.143	0.095
Age, centered	−0.023 ***	0.003	−0.022 ***	0.004	−0.025 ***	0.004
Age, centered (squared)	0 **	0	0.001 *	0	0	0
Migrant sons only × age	−0.005	0.006	−0.009	0.009	0.001	0.008
Migrant daughters only × age	0.034 *	0.015	0.04 *	0.017	0.022	0.02
Migration of both genders × age	0.022 †	0.012	0.019	0.018	0.024	0.016
Returned	−0.09	0.056	−0.084	0.077	−0.092	0.072
Returned × age	−0.009	0.009	−0.023 *	0.011	0.005	0.013
Constant	2.2 ***	0.054	2.206 ***	0.054	2.164 ***	0.069
Random effects – variance components
Level 1: Within-person	0.467 ***	0.014	0.486 ***	0.02	0.443 ***	0.018
Level 2: In linear growth rate	0 ***	0	0 ***	0	0 ***	0
Level 2: In intercept	0.079 ***	0.013	0.075 ***	0.016	0.075 ***	0.017
Log pseudolikelihood	−4431		−2328		−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<.1,

^*p<.05,

^**p<.01,

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

^aReference is those who did not have migrant children.