子女数对农村高龄老人养老及生活状况的影响

The Effect of Number of Children on Quality of Living of the Chinese Rural Oldest-Old

文章根据2000年中国高龄老人健康调查数据,利用交互表和Logisdc回归方法,检验分性别子女数对农村高龄老人的户居方式、经济来源、生活照料以及生活健康自评方面的影响。结果发现,在控制其他社会经济变量条件下,存活儿子数和存活女儿数在户居方式、生活照料、经济来源方面均有统计显著性,女儿数对老人生活自评状况影响显著,儿子数并不显著,而对于老人健康自评方面的影响,存活女儿数和存活儿子数均无统计显著性,只有年龄变量对老人健康自评影响显著。

Based on the Chinese Health Longevity Survey in 2000, the paper examines how number of children by gender in-fluences the living arrangement, the main source of financial support, daily caregiving, and self-rated health (SRH) of the oldest-old in rural China by using the cross-table analyses and logistic regression analysis. The result indicates that, by controlling socio-demographic factors, both number of alive sons and daughters have the significant influence on first three factors, whereas only number o...