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

Table 5

Multiple regression results for the individual variables of the disabled.

Disabled	Coefficient	Standard deviation	t		(95% confidence interval)
Age	0.0023769	0.0009777	2.43	0.015	0.0004577	0.004294
Educational background	0.0002456	0.0043722	0.56	0.574	−0.0061215	0.0110335
Marital status	0.0002278	0.0041569	0.05	0.956	−0.0079275	0.008383
Gender	0.0248379	0.0143658	1.73	0.084	−0.0033454	0.0530211
Physical disability	−0.2177461	0.0413576	−5.26	0.0001	−0.2988828	−0.1366093
Brain damage/intellectual disability	−0.105346	0.0438723.	−2.40	0.016	−0.1914162	−0.0192759
Blindness or partial blindness	−0.0579315	0.0279862	−2.07	0.039	−0.1128358	−0.0030272
Deafness or partial deafness	−0.0475304	0.0204548	−2.32	0.020	−0.0876594	−0.0074014
Stuttering or severe stuttering	−0.0636656	0.105319	−0.60	0.546	−0.2702841	0.1429529
Hypertension	−0.0130158	0.0145785	−0.89	0.372	−0.0416165	0.0155849
Dyslipidemia	0.0220961	0.0236721	0.93	0.351	−0.0243446	0.0685368
Diabetes	−0.0422556	0.0260122	−1.62	0.105	−0.0932872	0.0087759
Cancer	−0.0752628	0.0533932	−1.41	0.159	−0.1800114	0.0294857
Chronic lung disease	−0.0229355	0.022411	−1.02	0.306	−0.0669022	0.0210313
Liver diseases	0.0235449	0.0295659	0.80	0.426	−0.0344586	0.0815483
Heart disease	−0.0279454	0.0194356	−1.44	0.151	−0.0660749	0.0101841
Stroke	−0.1752278	0.0372891	−4.70	0.0001	−0.2483829	−0.1020728
Kidney disease	−0.0080584	0.0289459	−0.28	0.781	−0.0648455	0.0487287
Stomach or digestive system disease	−0.0204425	0.0164599	−1.24	0.214	−0.0527342	0.0118491
Emotional and mental problems	0. 0191352	0.061465	0.31	0.756	−0.101449	0.1397194
Memory-related disorders	−0.2007915	0.0563144	−3.57	0.0001	−0.311271	−0.0903119
Arthritis or rheumatism	−0.0312724	−0.014733	−2.12	0.034	−0.0601762	−0.0023687
Asthma	−0.1116816	0.0351583	−3.18	0.002	−0.1806563	−0.0427069
cons	2.112104	0.3026871	6.98	0.0001	1.518282	2.705926