Disparities in Poverty Characteristics among Diverse Family Structures: Evidence from Socioeconomically Deprived Rural Areas in Shandong Province

A multistage sampling method was used: 2 counties were selected from each of 3 prefecture-level cities, 3 townships from each county, 4 villages from each township, and 35 households were interviewed in each village. The initial sample was 2,527 households, and after excluding samples with missing key information on the household head, 2,399 households were included in the final analysis.

Data were collected through structured questionnaire face-to-face interviews, covering six dimensions: family structure, economic security, health status, education, social capital, healthcare utilization, and living conditions. Most indicators reflect the current status at the time of the survey, while some indicators recall the past 12 months, 1 month, 1 week, or the period from the first half of 2017 to 2022. The data file mainly includes family structure type (single-person households, young and middle-aged couple households, elderly couple households, two-generation households, multigenerational households), deprivation scores for each dimension, and control variables (household consumption expenditure, government subsidies, medical assistance, inclusive commercial health insurance, high-cost medical expenses, former impoverished household status, debt, subjective economic status, relatives' or friends' residence and official positions, etc.).