Basic characteristics of the respondents
| Variate | N (%) | Variate | N (%) | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Gender | Male | 2079 (50.40) | Number of house properties Have subsidies† | 0 | 365 (8.90) |
| Female | 2044 (49.60) | 1 | 2958 (71.70) | ||
| Highest educational level* | Uneducated | 867 (21.00) | ≥2 | 800 (19.40) | |
| Primary | 1941 (47.10) | No | 2781 (0.68) | ||
| Intermediate | 738 (17.90) | Yes | 1342 (0.33) | ||
| High class | 577 (14.00) | Have debts | No | 3378 (0.82) | |
| Place of residence | Urban | 2300 (55.80) | Yes | 745 (0.18) | |
| Rural | 1823 (44.20) | Have health insurance | No | 236 (0.06) | |
| Marital status | Spinsterhood | 110 (2.70) | Yes | 3887 (0.94) | |
| Married | 3437 (83.40) | Number of chronic diseases (kind) | 0 | 1749 (42.40) | |
| Divorced | 99 (2.40) | 1 | 1233 (29.90) | ||
| Widowed | 477 (11.60) | HLS-SF12 | ≥2 | 1141 (27.70) | |
| Age group | 60–70 | 2529 (61.30) | Low | 2205 (0.54) | |
| 71–80 | 1401 (34.00) | High | 1918 (0.47) | ||
| ＞80 | 193 (4.70) | PSSS | Low | 2382 (0.58) | |
| Number of children‡ | 0 | 318 (7.70) | High | 1741 (0.42) | |
| 1 | 1337 (32.50) | Anxiety | No anxiety | 2299 (0.56) | |
| ≥2 | 2465 (59.80) | Mild anxiety | 1338 (0.33) | ||
| Number of brothers and sisters | 0 | 764 (18.50) | Depression | Moderate anxiety | 416 (0.10) |
| 1 | 662 (16.10) | Severe anxiety | 70 (0.02) | ||
| ≥2 | 2697 (65.40) | No depression | 4074 (98.80) | ||
| Occupation type‡ | Professionals | 216 (7.60) | Mild depression | 1 (0.00) | |
| Business services personnel | 257 (9.00) | Moderate depression | 10 (0.20) | ||
| Agricultural, forestry and fisheries producers | 560 (19.60) | Severe depression | 38 (0.90) | ||
| Soldier | 48 (1.70) | ||||
| Other staff | 1779 (62.60) | ||||
| Monthly household income (CNY） | <2000 | 1008 (24.40) | |||
| 2000–4000 | 1571 (38.10) | ||||
| >4000 | 1544 (37.40) |
*Primary (primary and junior high school); intermediate (secondary vocational education or senior high school); and senior (college, bachelor’s degree and above).
†Includes subsidies for renting, employment, living, purchasing a home, job seeking and starting a business.
‡missing data.
HLS-SF12, short-form Health Literacy Survey; PSSS, Perceived Social Support Scale.