Early literature turn out that the patterns of social supports of the elderly in western nations are quite different from those of Chinese elderly, which indicates that more social supports for Chinese elderly depend mainly on their children and relatives. However, accompanied with process of the modernization and industrialization, the traditional patterns of social supports of Chinese elderly have changed. This study employed the CLASS data to identify the current patterns of social support and its determinants by using Logistic model. Our results show that factors such as schoolings, occupation before retirement, residence, social pension, etc., could affect the choice of social support of Chinese elderly, which urges both central and local governments to provide more social service and care for Chinese elderly in the rapid process of population ageing in China.
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