3.3.2. Independent Variable

The independent variable in this paper is family structure. According to different family labor and political capital, this paper classifies family structure into elite and incomplete families. Some scholars define the elite as the household with family members who are local village cadres or the household with relatives who are local village cadres [41]. While elite families mean that they have more abundant social capital in the local area, this definition is not comprehensive. Based on this, this paper defines households with party members or cadres as elite households. Except for ordinary households, elite households correspond to broken households or a disintegration of social structure family. In general, behaviors tend to change family structures and gradually begin to disintegrate into incomplete families, such as having a family member with chronic illness, divorce, incarceration, HIV infection, and disputes with neighbors [33]. Based on this, this paper defines households with an incomplete person, divorced householder, or poor health status of the householder as incomplete households. Thus, elite and incomplete households are dummy variables (elite households = 1; non-elite households = 0; incomplete households = 1; non-incomplete households = 0). In addition, the variables were also replaced by the degree of elite and the degree of disability for the analysis, with the degree of elite and the degree of disability being continuous variables.
