Is caregiving by baby boomer women related to the presence of depressive symptoms? Evidence from eight national surveys

Table 1 Summary statistics of the surveys’ datasets

Dataset (year)	Country	N	Age (Mean, Std Dev)	Prevalence of depressive symptoms (%)	Prevalence of caregiving status (%)	Proportion of women in managerial or professional occupations	Female vulnerable employment rate	Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments	Adolescent fertility rate	Female labor force participation rate
CHARLS (2011)	People’s Republic of China	2537	60.55 (2.51)	47.34	9.10	44	71^a	20	8	67
JSTAR (2007)	Japan	561	56.98 (2.58)	19.61	26.03	40	14	9	5	48
KLoSA (2006)	Korea	1349	56.00 (2.56)	14.31	3.57	35	29	13	2	50
MHAS (2001)	Mexico	2642	51.78 (2.29)	37.65	9.70	40	33	24	71	41
TLSA (2003)	Taiwan	774	53.37 (2.04)	10.98	4.93	41^b	20^b	30^c	8^d	48^b
ELSA (2002)	UK	1770	52.90 (2.26)	25.54	24.66	42	6	20	26	55
HRS (2004)	USA	1365	52.98 (1.80)	18.97	7.13	50	6^e,f	15	41	58
SHARE (2004)	Austria	236	54.46 (2.61)	22.88	15.02	45	8	34	12	51
	Belgium	697	54.00 (2.57)	29.56	13.36	44	10	35	11	46
	Denmark	287	54.15 (2.59)	24.74	8.83	48	4	37	6	61
	France	594	53.96 (2.61)	39.56	9.55	46	5	12	10	50
	Germany	506	53.83 (2.36)	19.96	10.24	48	7	32	11	51
	Greece	510	53.70 (2.51)	29.80	9.15	41	28	13	11	42
	Israel	562	53.98 (2.57)	33.27	13.08	48	5	15	15	50
	Italy	432	54.50 (2.52)	36.34	6.84	43	17	12	7	38
	Netherlands	603	54.27 (2.52)	21.56	9.76	43	8	37	6	57
	Spain	394	53.80 (2.51)	35.79	4.70	44	11	36	12	46
	Sweden	524	54.27 (2.55)	25.19	10.72	49	4	45	6	59
	Switzerland	162	53.75 (2.58)	28.40	7.64	43	10	25	5	60

Note: ^aChina Labour Statistical Yearbook 2006 ^bDirectorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) (http://www.dgbas.gov.tw/) ^cThe Legislative Yuan of Republic of China (http://www.ly.gov.tw/) ^d Department of Household Registration Affairs (http://www.moi.gov.tw/stat/) ^eLABORSTA (http://www.ilo.org/ilostat/) ^fEmployer, own account worker and unpaid family worker were included

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