These results show a severe problem of depressive symptoms
among the Chinese elderly in 2011/12. As discussed in the Introduction,
early studies from the 1980s in China showed small levels
of depressive symptoms, although one must be careful in making
comparisons since those studies did not necessarily use the same
measures of depressive symptoms and they were not in general
nationally representative. Still, our results are consistent with the
story that problems with depressive symptoms have increased in
China over the past 30 years. The exact reasons for this change we
cannot pinpoint from our results. In contrast, in Indonesia, the
Indonesia Family Life Survey, wave 4, shows that only 5% of men
and 9.4% of women aged 60 and over have CES-D 10 scores at 10
and over (Witoelar et al., 2012).
These results show a severe problem of depressive symptoms
among the Chinese elderly in 2011/12. As discussed in the Introduction,
early studies from the 1980s in China showed small levels
of depressive symptoms, although one must be careful in making
comparisons since those studies did not necessarily use the same
measures of depressive symptoms and they were not in general
nationally representative. Still, our results are consistent with the
story that problems with depressive symptoms have increased in
China over the past 30 years. The exact reasons for this change we
cannot pinpoint from our results. In contrast, in Indonesia, the
Indonesia Family Life Survey, wave 4, shows that only 5% of men
and 9.4% of women aged 60 and over have CES-D 10 scores at 10
and over (Witoelar et al., 2012).
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