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In this chapter, simple descriptive statistics of the survey are presented to examine the participants’ profile and to provide an overview of the study. This chapter consists of four parts. Part one presents the participants’ profile in the survey and their demographic information. Part two displays the descriptive statistics of the respondents in terms of the main variable in this study. Part three exhibits the correlations among main variables. The last part is the summary of the whole chapter.
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Liu, S. (2019). Descriptive Findings of Survey. In: Social Support Networks, Coping and Positive Aging Among the Community-Dwelling Elderly in Hong Kong. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3783-3_6
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