Table 2.

Characteristics of older people who need care, by care status and by gender

	All	Women	Men	Has help	No help
Received care (%)	88.4	87.2	90.1	100	0.0
Women (%)	59.0			58.3	65.0
Age (year)	73.4	73.8	72.7	73.7	70.8
Rural hukou (%)	76.8	81.4	70.2	75.6	85.8
Rural residence (%)	59.6	62.2	55.9	58.2	70.3
Education level (%)
Illiterate	54.2	69.5	32.2	54.2	54.8
Did not finish primary school	17.0	13.4	22.1	16.1	23.4
Finished primary school	16.2	10.5	24.4	16.3	15.3
Finished middle school	7.1	4.8	10.3	7.4	4.4
Finished high school and above	5.5	1.7	11.0	6.0	2.0
Receives a pension (%)	39.1	32.7	48.3	40.3	29.7
No. of children	3.6	3.7	3.4	3.6	3.5
No. of sons	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.9	1.8
Spouse’s health status (%)
No spouse	37.4	47.5	22.8	37.2	38.7
Spouse requires care	19.0	15.5	24.0	18.2	24.8
Spouse does not require care (%)	43.7	37.1	53.3	44.6	36.6
Observations	1,694	979	715	1,457	237

Note: All numbers are weighted.