Reducing Multidimensional Poverty of Elderly: The Role of the New Rural Pension Scheme in China
Table 3
Descriptive statistics of multidimensional poverty among the elderly in rural China.
Variable
Participation
Nonparticipation
Receiving
Nonreceiving
Multipoverty
0.2238 (0.4168)
0.2588 (0.4380)
0.2316 (0.4218)
0.2872 (0.4525)
Lifepoverty
0.6404 (0.4798)
0.6312 (0.4825)
0.6920 (0.4617)
0.7049 (0.4561)
Healthpoverty
0.1964 (0.3973)
0.2462 (0.4308)
0.2873 (0.4525)
0.3043 (0.4601)
Socialpoverty
0.1707 (0.3762)
0.2111 (0.4081)
0.1685 (0.3744)
0.2032 (0.4024)
Swell-beingpoverty
0.1958 (0.3968)
0.2618 (0.4397)
0.2241 (0.4170)
0.2709 (0.4445)
Data source: CFPS2012, 2014, 2016. Note: standard deviations are in parentheses. The symbols ,, and indicate statistical significance at the 10%, 5% and 1% levels, respectively, and are the results of the mean t-test.
