Table 2.

Pet ownership regression, adults aged 55 + , SHARE Switzerland, 2017

	Any pets	Dog	Cat	Other
	AME (SE)	AME (SE)	AME (SE)	AME (SE)
Gender (male)
Female	0.01 (0.02)	− 0.00 (0.02)	0.03 (0.02)	0.00 (0.01)
Age group (55–64 years)
65–74 years	− 0.10* (0.04)	− 0.03 (0.03)	− 0.06 (0.04)	0.00 (0.01)
75 + years	− 0.23*** (0.04)	− 0.09** (0.03)	− 0.15*** (0.04)	− 0.00 (0.01)
Partnership status (has a partner)
no partner	− 0.03 (0.03)	− 0.00 (0.03)	− 0.04 (0.03)	− 0.01 (0.01)
Language (German(ch))
French (ch)	− 0.03 (0.04)	− 0.03 (0.03)	− 0.02 (0.03)	− 0.01 (0.01)
Italian (ch)	0.21* (0.09)	− 0.00 (0.07)	0.09 (0.10)	0.13 (0.09)
Education (low)
Secondary	− 0.04 (0.03)	0.03 (0.02)	0.01 (0.03)	0.02 (0.01)
Tertiary	0.06 (0.05)	0.04 (0.04)	0.03 (0.04)	0.00 (0.01)
Make ends meet (easily)
fairly easily	0.03 (0.03)	0.02 (0.03)	0.01 (0.03)	− 0.01 (0.01)
with difficulty	0.13* (0.05)	0.09* (0.05)	0.15** (0.05)	0.01 (0.02)
Employed (no)
Yes	− 0.00 (0.04)	− 0.03 (0.03)	0.06 (0.04)	− 0.01 (0.01)
Living area (urban)
Rural	0.08* (0.03)	− 0.00 (0.03)	0.12*** (0.03)	− 0.01 (0.01)
Type of house (house)
Apartment	− 0.20*** (0.03)	− 0.09*** (0.03)	− 0.13*** (0.03)	− 0.04*** (0.01)
Self-rated health (poor/fair health)
good health	− 0.05 (0.04)	0.03 (0.03)	− 0.05 (0.04)	0.02* (0.01)
very good/excellent health	− 0.05 (0.04)	0.01 (0.03)	− 0.06 (0.04)	0.01 (0.01)
Depression (no)
Yes	− 0.02 (0.04)	− 0.00 (0.03)	− 0.05 (0.03)	0.00 (0.01)
Observations	1832	1832	1832	1832

Bold values denote statistical significance at * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 and *** p < 0.001

This table reports the estimates for the weighted probit models regressing the different types of pet ownership on the covariates. Average marginal effects and standard errors in parentheses have the following significance levels: * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. Data from SHARE wave 7, release version: 7.1.1