Resilience Significantly Contributes to Exceptional Longevity
Table 3
Descriptive statistics of the variables investigated in this study.
Ages 100+
Ages 90–99
Ages 80–89
Ages 65–79
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Mean SRS
15.8
15.0
15.6
14.9
15.8
14.9
16.6
15.7
Mean age
101.9
102.4
93.1
93.6
84.6
84.8
71.9
72.0
% Han ethnicity
93.6
93.4
94.6
93.2
94.6
94.1
94.0
94.1
% urban residence
45.4
35.0
43.0
39.7
38.3
39.0
39.2
42.2
% currently married
11.3
1.1
24.8
5.0
47.7
18.5
77.0
52.2
% literate
43.2
6.6
54.0
12.6
60.6
16.6
78.5
39.5
% having pension
23.6
2.7
27.9
7.3
27.3
9.2
33.2
21.5
% ADL independent
52.0
46.9
76.2
70.2
89.2
87.2
96.5
96.0
% normal cognition
33.3
16.6
49.3
32.4
72.2
57.2
92.1
85.9
Subsample size
666
2,677
1,883
2,677
2,139
2,110
2,253
2,023
Note: the mean SRS among the elderly aged 65–79, 80–89, and 90–99, presented in this table and in Figures 1(a) and 1(b) are weighted averages, using the 2000 census rural-urban-sex-age distributions and the corresponding CLHLS 2008-2009 sample distributions to compute the weights. The mean resilience scores of the centenarians are unweighted as the CLHLS study tried to interview all of the centenarians in the sampled areas.
