Table 3.

Descriptive statistics

Latent variables		Observed variables	Mean of total sample	Mean of city sample			Mean of rural sample
				The Young-old group	The Middle-old group	The Old-old group	The Young-old group	The Middle-old group	The Old-old group
Social network	Family network	Family contacts	3.23	3.25	3.29	3.29	3.12	3.18	3.36
		Family talks	2.26	2.29	2.29	2.31	2.20	2.24	2.10
		Family supports	3.02	2.94	3.04	3.18	2.95	3.10	3.21
	Friend network	Friend contacts	2.58	2.86	2.63	2.14	2.62	2.35	2.00
		Friend talks	1.59	1.84	1.60	1.37	1.55	1.43	1.17
		Friend supports	1.79	2.10	1.72	1.44	1.81	1.59	1.26
Older adults’ well-being		Life satisfaction	4.01	4.00	4.13	4.15	3.93	4.03	3.99
		Self-rated health	3.20	3.46	3.21	3.13	3.10	2.94	2.93
Control variables		Income	2.88	3.49	3.48	3.50	2.16	1.82	1.67
		Education	2.91	3.61	3.31	2.67	2.5	2.09	1.64
		Gender	0.52	0.50	0.55	0.56	0.48	0.54	0.58
		Age	70.31	63.76	74.35	83.84	63.78	74.20	83.58
		Number of children	3.09	2.10	3.28	3.93	2.83	4.13	4.88
		Marital status	0.35	0.20	0.40	0.64	0.22	0.48	0.76