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Table 4 Comparison of the results between cross sectional study and policy analysis

From: Policy implementation deviation of government purchase of old age care services in Jiangsu, China: based on empirical and policy analysis

Dimension

Study design

Cross-sectional study

Policy documents analysis

Comparison

Project performance in practice/performance objective in the policy documents

Relevance (Mean ± standard deviation/n)

0.80 ± 0.22

17

+

Efficiency

0.70 ± 0.24

11

Effectiveness

0.78 ± 0.19

11

Satisfaction

0.83 ± 0.20

6

×

Social impact

0.81 ± 0.17

13

+

Sustainability

0.80 ± 0.19

11

+

Factors associated with project performance/coordination of participants described in the policy documents

Service object

Advanced ageing (P < 0.05), ageing

Oldest old

+

Region (southern, northern and central of Jiangsu)

Region (degree of economic hardship: rural and urban)

Not measured

Disability, dementia

/

Not measured

Lonely, empty nest, left behind

/

Undertaker

Social worker

Social force

+

Doctor/preventive medicine worker and nurse

Professional work force

+

Others

Charitable organization, voluntary service organization, voluntary service organization of Red Cross Society

/

Enterprise, industry association

/

Training year (professional training)

/

Purchaser

Red Cross Society

MCA, NHC, SC, MF, NDRC, RCSC, etc.

+

  1. + being equally important, valued or the same in both the policy design and practice; − being equally unimportant, undervalued or little different in the policy design and practice; × being opposite in the policy design and practice, / cannot be compared in the policy design and practice