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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 26.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2018 Mar 26;27(6):937–955. doi: 10.1002/hec.3647

Table 4:

Descriptive Statistics for HRS dataset

Binary Variables Mean (sd)
Outcomes
 Informal Care from Any Source 0.60 (0.49)
 Informal Care from Child 0.43 (0.50)
 Informal Care from other Relative 0.165 (0.37)
 Home Health Care 0.068 ( 0.25)
 Any Nursing Home Care 0.023 (0.15)
Treatment
 LTCI coverage 0.157 (0.364)
IV
 Subsidies 0.335 (0.472)
Other covariates
 Marital status==2 0.11 (0.32)
 Marital status ==3 0.17 (0.37)
 Marital status==4 0.06 (0.24)
 Female 0.56 (0.5)
 No. of children==1 0.1 (0.3)
 No. of children==2 0.31 (0.46)
 No. of children==3 0.22 (0.42)
 No. of children==4 0.13 (0.34)
 No. of children==5 0.15 (0.36)
 No. of children==6 0.01 (0.11)
 Retired 0.47 (0.5)
 Education category ==2 0.35 (0.48)
 Education category ==3 0.26 (0.44)
 Education category ==4 0.3 (0.46)
 Income category==2 0.36 (0.48)
 Income category==3 0.64 (0.48)
 Race category ==2 0.06 (0.25)
 Race category ==3 0.03 (0.18)
 Fair/Poor health 0.17 (0.37)
 Any ADL 0.1 (0.29)