TABLE 12-5, Description of Other Characteristics: Community - Aging in Asia

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		Region		Province

Community-Level Variables	Overall	Urban	Rural	Zhejiang	Gansu
% of female	0.501	0.533	0.486	0.501	0.504
# of big surnames	1.615	1.476	1.679	1.428	1.831
# of kindergartens	1.098	1.479	0.719	1.168	0.979
distance from kindergarten	2.551	0.893	0.675	1.932	3.436
# of primary school	0.651	0.444	0.815	0.358	1.003
distance from primary school	0.772	1.991	4.150	2.998	0.129
# of middle schools	0.188	0.291	0.106	0.191	0.185
distance from middle school	3.190	1.993	3.106	1.305	3.590
# of senior high schools	0.045	0.101	0.000	0.066	0.019
distance from senior high school	11.461	5.848	15.789	8.129	15.588
# of post offices	0.181	0.313	0.076	0.163	0.203
distance from post office	4.224	2.057	6.000	2.809	5.989
# of libraries	0.438	0.657	0.264	0.629	0.209
distance from the library	8.726	3.363	12.765	2.552	16.255
# of theatres	0.085	0.170	0.017	0.073	0.099
distance from the theatre	13.367	5.469	19.875	7.347	21.004
# of nursing homes	0.081	0.128	0.043	0.095	0.064
distance from nursing home	9.491	6.668	11.619	3.848	18.530
# of bus lines	2.123	3.306	1.194	2.880	1.197
distance from bus line	2.253	0.886	3.313	0.434	4.502
distance from train station	81.811	81.665	81.915	84.846	78.399
% of people having telephones	64.714	73.178	60.800	74.218	53.716
% of people having cellphones	77.013	88.549	71.679	88.815	63.355
Whether the medical care is poor	0.017	0.023	0.013	0.000	0.036
Log public expenditure during the past year	8.514	10.469	7.621	11.936	4.560
Log per capita income	8.124	8.584	7.791	8.905	7.253
Observations	2,293	1,017	1,276	1,253	1,040

Aging in Asia: Findings From New and Emerging Data Initiatives.

National Research Council (US) Panel on Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Asia; Smith JP, Majmundar M, editors.

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