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Table 3 Selected coefficients of the multinomial regression model for selected variables

From: Informal care and gifts to and from older people in Europe: The interlinks between giving and receiving

 

Informal care

Fin. gifts

Neither receives nor gives

Only receives

Only gives

Both receives and gives

A Age between 65 and 75 years old (ref: younger than 65)

Neither receives nor gives

-

0.166b

−0.363c

−0.220c

 

(0.068)

(0.050)

(0.085)

Only receives

−0.146

0.052

−0.479c

−0.373

(0.122)

(0.202)

(0.174)

(0.252)

Only gives

−0.024

0.262b

−0.461c

−0.372c

(0.049)

(0.117)

(0.066)

(0.121)

Both receives and gives

−0.049

0.406

−0.637c

−0.674c

(0.130)

(0.248)

(0.156)

(0.186)

B Age older than 75 years old (ref: younger than 65)

Neither receives nor gives

-

0.934c

−1.012c

−0.546c

 

(0.066)

(0.067)

(0.100)

Only receives

−0.508c

0.106

−1.129c

−0.787c

(0.149)

(0.208)

(0.240)

(0.301)

Only gives

−0.083

0.804c

−1.220c

−0.469c

(0.058)

(0.117)

(0.099)

(0.141)

Both receives and gives

−0.228

0.397

−1.328c

−1.128c

(0.166)

(0.274)

(0.248)

(0.251)

C Gender: female

Neither receives nor gives

-

0.312c

0.235c

0.253c

 

(0.049)

(0.039)

(0.067)

Only receives

0.431c

0.857c

0.613c

0.874c

(0.097)

(0.183)

(0.130)

(0.206)

Only gives

−0.098c

0.090

0.164c

0.183b

(0.037)

(0.082)

(0.049)

(0.085)

Both receives and gives

0.237b

0.667c

0.528c

0.301b

(0.096)

(0.203)

(0.109)

(0.139)

D Share of people in the social network living less than 5 km away

Neither receives nor gives

-

0.402c

0.497c

0.621c

 

(0.057)

(0.053)

(0.084)

Only receives

−0.050

0.419b

0.200

0.222

(0.125)

(0.178)

(0.169)

(0.227)

Only gives

0.127b

0.593c

0.482c

0.538c

(0.053)

(0.102)

(0.071)

(0.117)

Both receives and gives

0.231a

−0.029

0.498c

0.615c

(0.139)

(0.239)

(0.152)

(0.182)

Pseudo R-squared (0.114)

Number of observations (35,363)

  1. Other control variable included: ‘household size’, ‘having the partner in the same household’, ‘self-perceived health score, ‘activities of daily living (ADL) scale’, ‘having been hospitalized in the last 12 months’, ‘income quintiles’, ‘employment and retirement status’, and a list of dummies for the country of residence.; Standard deviations in brackets; asignificant at 10 %; bsignificant at 5 %; csignificant at 1 %