Understanding Disabilities among the Elderly in China: Important Factors, Current Situation, and Future Perspective

Table 1

Results from the multifactor analysis of variance.

Dependent variable: disabled or not
Variable	Sum of squares of deviation from mean	Degree of freedom	Mean-square value	F	Statistical significance	Partial eta-squared
Correction model	14.651a	68	0.215	3.725	0.000	0.171
Age	2.320	35	0.066	1.146	0.258	0.032
Educational background	0.648	8	0.081	1.399	0.192	0.009
Marital status	0.052	5	0.010	0.179	0.970	0.001
Gender	0.201	1	0.201	3.468	0.063	0.003
Physical disability	1.442	1	1.442	24.929	0.000	0.020
Brain damage/intellectual disability	0.306	1	0.306	5.293	0.022	0.004
Blindness or partial blindness	0.254	1	0.254	4.395	0.036	0.004
Deafness or partial deafness	0.326	1	0.326	5.637	0.018	0.005
Stuttering or severe stuttering	0.007	1	0.007	0.114	0.736	0.000
Hypertension	0.029	1	0.029	0.509	0.476	0.000
Dyslipidemia	0.056	1	0.056	0.963	0.327	0.001
Diabetes	0.169	1	0.169	2.930	0.087	0.002
Cancer	0.122	1	0.122	2.111	0.147	0.002
Chronic lung disease	0.051	1	0.051	0.883	0.348	0.001
Liver diseases	0.083	1	0.083	1.431	0.232	0.001
Heart disease	0.197	1	0.197	3.412	0.065	0.003
Stroke	1.188	1	1.188	20.537	0.000	0.017
Kidney disease	0.003	1	0.003	0.049	0.825	0.000
Stomach or digestive system disease	0.116	1	0.116	2.001	0.157	0.002
Emotional and mental problems	0.010	1	0.010	0.172	0.679	0.000
Memory-related disorders	0.781	1	0.781	13.500	0.000	0.011
Arthritis or rheumatism	0.233	1	0.233	4.019	0.045	0.003
Asthma	0.532	1	0.532	9.201	0.002	0.007
Errors	70.803	1224	0.058
Aggregate	92.000	1293
Revised total	85.454	1292