| Publication |
| Author(s) | Gee, E.M. |
| Title | Living Arrangements and Quality of Life among Chinese Canadian Elders. |
| Source | Social Indicators Research, 2000, Vol. 51, 309 - 329 |
| DOI | Doi:10.1023/A:1007036122117 |
| Investigation |
| Public | 65+ aged, Chinese Canadians, Canada, 1996 |
| | Elderly Chinese living in Canada, Greater Vancouver and Greater Victoria |
| Survey name | Unnamed study |
| Sample | Non-probability purposive sample |
| | Sampling was drawn from the list of persons with Chinese surnames who were on the rooster of the British Columbia Medical Services Plan. |
| Respondents N = | 2158 |
| | The list of elderly Chinese living in sampling area included 2500. Of these 2158 were contacted. |
| Non Response | 28.5% |
| | No contact was ever made with 296 cases (the telephone was out of order, the person no longer lived in the area, there was no answer after ten attempsts). 775 cases was inelligible since the person was not Chinese, was too frail/ill to come to the telephone, was away for a long period, or had died. In 242 cases the person fefused to be interviewed. |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| | Respondents were interviewed in their own homes by trained Chinese interviewers, both seniors and non-seniors, in the language of their choice. |
| Happiness measure(s) used |
| Author's label | Subject Code
Finding | Subject description |
| Age | A04ab | Current age (in years) |
| Country of birth | N10aa01 | Earlier nationality (nation of origin) |
| English-speaking ability | L01aa02 | Change in language |
| Frequency of seeing non-coresident children | C05ab | Current relation with one's children |
| Have confidante | F06ad | Current friendship network |
| Health | H14ab02 | Self-perceived health |
| Living arrangement | H20ab01 | Living alone or not |
| Living arrangement | H20ab02 | Living with children, also classified as above ↑ |
| Living arrangement- widowed women | H20ab01 | Living alone or not |
| Living arrangement- widowed women | H20ab02 | Living with children, also classified as above ↑ |
| Living Arrangements | H20ab02 | Living with children |
| Number of close friends | F06ab01 | Number of close friends |
| Personal income | I01ab01 | Personal income |
| See children as often as want | C05ab02 | Relation with children living on their own |
| Years in Canada | N10aa | Nationality career |