Effects of health status on work exit and absenteeism among the older working population in China: a secondary analysis of a cohort sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To analyse the effects of health status on work exit and absenteeism among the older working population in China.

Design

Secondary analysis of a cohort sample.

Setting and participants

Community samples who engaged in either agricultural or non-agriculture work or both in the 2011 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and whose age was 45-55 years for women or 45-60 years for men in the 2013 wave.

Outcome measures

Work exit and number of absent workdays due to health problems in 2013. To address the problems of measurement error of self-rated health status, we used disability condition, number of chronic diseases and functional limitation to construct an index of health. We divided the sample into four groups according t

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6738687 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature