| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Li, D.; Chen, T.; Wu, Z. |
| Title | An Exploration of the Subjective Well-Being of the Chinese Oldest-Old. |
| Source | Healthy Longevity in China, Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 2008, Vol. 20, 347 - 356 |
| URL | http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-6752-5_21 |
| DOI | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_21 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 80+ aged, China, 2002 |
| Survey name | Unnamed study |
| Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) | |
| Sample | Mixed samples |
| All centenarians from the randomly selected counties and cities of 22 provinces in China who agreed to participate in the study. For each centenarian, one octogenarian aged 80-89 living nearby, one nearby nonagenarian aged 90-99, and one nearby younger elder aged 65-79 of predesignated age and sex were interviewed. | |
| Respondents N = | 11175 |
| Non Response | 1285 |
| Respondents were not able to answer certain questions mainly because of hearing loss, congnitive impairment, and/or other diseases and illiteracy. | |
| Assesment | Multiple methods |
| computer-assisted self interview (CASI), face-to-face interview, self-enumerated questionnaire | |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: How would you rate your quality of life? 1 very poor 2 poor 3 neither poor nor good 4 good 5 very good |
| Classification | O-QOL-u-sq-v-5-a |
| Author's label | How do you feel about your life? |
| Page in publication | 349 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 5 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.67 | |
| Standard deviation | 0.83 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| % | 1.1 | 6.3 | 31.3 | 47.3 | 14.0 |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Ask for help from whom | S10ab02 | Sources of current support |
| Chat with whom | S06ab | Current contacts |
| Chat with whom | A02ac10 | Socializing, also classified as above ↑ |
| Confide with whom | F06ac03 | Intimate discussions |
| Confide with whom | A02ac10 | Socializing, also classified as above ↑ |
| Education | E01ab01 | Years schooling |
| Lived with spouse | H20ab01 | Living alone or not |
| Living arrangement | H20ab | Current household-composition |
| Living arrangement | H20ab01 | Living alone or not, also classified as above ↑ |
| Living arrangement | I02ab06 | Living in an old age home, also classified as above ↑ |
| Main financial source | I01ad | Source of current income |
| Residence | L13ab02 | Community size |
| Residence | L13ab02b | Rural vs urban dwelling, also classified as above ↑ |
| Sex | G01aa | Sex (male vs female) |