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Table 1 Demographic data for left-behind wives and non-left-behind wives

From: Health-related quality of life and influencing factors among rural left-behind wives in Liuyang, China

Characteristics

Left-behind wives (nā€‰=ā€‰1893)

Non-left-behind wives (nā€‰=ā€‰969)

Age

36.48ā€‰Ā±ā€‰7.64

36.00ā€‰Ā±ā€‰8.81

The length of education

8.57ā€‰Ā±ā€‰2.65

8.76ā€‰Ā±ā€‰2.67

Number of children

1.44ā€‰Ā±ā€‰0.64

1.47ā€‰Ā±ā€‰0.71

Monthly income (%)

Ā Ā 

Low (<1500RMB)

17.0

15.0

Middle (1500ā€‰~ā€‰4000RMB)

64.2

63.4

High (>4000RMB)

18.8

21.6

Sense of security of marriage (%)

Ā 

Very secure

13.3

16.8

Secure

56.2

55.4

General

24.2

22.3

Unsecure

5.3

4.4

Very unsecure

1.0

1.1

Employment (%)

Ā Ā 

Working

43.3

46.1

Not working

56.7

53.9

Physical health status (%)

Ā 

Disease-free

74.3

76.1

Minor disease

24.7

23.0

Major diseases

1.0

0.9

  1. Note: Ļ‡ ĀÆ Ā±SD was used for continuous variables.