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Table 1 Participants’ demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, social capital, health risk behaviors, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL)

From: Socioeconomic status, social capital, health risk behaviors, and health-related quality of life among Chinese older adults

Variables

N = 4868

 Age, mean ± SD

71.0 ± 7.8

 Gender (1 = Male, 0 = Female)

2408 (49.5)

 Marital status (1 = Married, 0 = Others)

3292 (67.6)

 Place of residence (1 = Rural, 0 = Urban)

3797 (78.0)

Socioeconomic status

 Education level

   < Primary school

1971 (40.5)

  Primary school

1261 (25.9)

  Middle/high school

1283 (26.4)

   ≥ College

353 (7.3)

 Family per-capita annual income (CHY)

   ≤ 15,000

1751 (36.0)

  15,000-30,000

1217 (25.0)

  30,000-45,000

936 (19.2)

   > 45,000

964 (19.8)

Health risk behaviors

 Smoking (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

1563 (32.1)

 Alcohol consumption (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

1769 (36.3)

 Physical inactivity (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

3044 (62.5)

 Unhealthy dietary behavior (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

2226 (45.7)

 Unhealthy weight (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

1549 (31.8)

 Sleep disorder (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

2214 (45.5)

Social capital

 Overall social capital, mean ± SD

41.9 ± 14.5

 Bonding social capital, mean ± SD

22.7 ± 7.2

 Bridging social capital, mean ± SD

19.2 ± 8.2

HRQoL

 Overall HRQoL, mean ± SD

77.3 ± 12.4

 Sensory abilities, mean ± SD

12.8 ± 2.9

 Autonomy, mean ± SD

13.6 ± 3.3

 Past, present and future activities, mean ± SD

13.0 ± 3.0

 Social participation, mean ± SD

13.0 ± 2.9

 Death and dying, mean ± SD

12.1 ± 3.3

 Intimacy, mean ± SD

12.8 ± 3.3

  1. Continuous variables are presented as mean and standard deviation (SD), categorical variables are presented as frequency (n) and percentage (%). For binary variables, the frequency (n) and percentage (%) of observations coded 1 are presented