Social capital and refraining from medical care among elderly people in Japan

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of estimation sample

Variables	Mean	SD	Min	Max
Refraining from medical care	0.175	0.380	0	1
Trust (individual, centered)	0.013	0.484	−1.429	1.231
Trust (community)	1.163	0.089	0.769	1.778
Reciprocity (individual, centered)	0.034	0.535	−1.458	1.000
Reciprocity (community)	1.215	0.091	1.000	1.750
Community size
Small	0.365	0.482	0	1
Medium	0.335	0.472	0	1
Large	0.300	0.459	0	1
Male	0.518	0.500	0	1
Age
60–69	0.473	0.500	0	1
70–79	0.315	0.465	0	1
80	0.212	0.409	0	1
Education
Elementary/junior high	0.420	0.494	0	1
High	0.428	0.495	0	1
Junior college	0.071	0.257	0	1
College/graduate	0.081	0.273	0	1
Marital status
Married	0.744	0.437	0	1
Not married	0.029	0.167	0	1
Widowed	0.199	0.399	0	1
Divorced	0.029	0.167	0	1
Having paid work	0.380	0.486	0	1
Household annual income
<200	0.334	0.472	0	1
200–399	0.352	0.478	0	1
400–799	0.161	0.368	0	1
≥800	0.041	0.199	0	1
No response	0.111	0.315	0	1
Number of families living with
Zero	0.167	0.373	0	1
One	0.400	0.490	0	1
Two or three	0.313	0.464	0	1
Four or more	0.120	0.325	0	1
Years living in present place
<10	0.069	0.253	0	1
10–19	0.062	0.241	0	1
20–29	0.060	0.238	0	1
≥30	0.809	0.393	0	1
Self-rated health	0.377	0.485	0	1
Smoking
Now	0.133	0.340	0	1
Past, not now	0.231	0.422	0	1
Never	0.636	0.481	0	1
Drinking	0.438	0.496	0	1
Having family doctor	0.834	0.373	0	1
Car driver to hospital
Respondents	0.618	0.486	0	1
Family members	0.345	0.476	0	1
Others	0.036	0.187	0	1
Having close neighbors	0.855	0.352	0	1
Having close friends other than neighbors	0.891	0.312	0	1

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