Table A8.
Number of missing values for the explanatory variables in regression
| Number of missing values | |
|---|---|
| Married | 20 |
| Ethnic minorities | 79 |
| Functionally dependent | 45 |
| Chronic conditions | |
| Hypertension | 39 |
| Heart diseases | 39 |
| Stroke | 39 |
| Diabetes | 39 |
| Lung diseases | 39 |
| Cancer | 39 |
| Dyslipidaemia | 39 |
| Liver diseases | 39 |
| Kidney diseases | 39 |
| Asthma | 40 |
| Arthritis/rheumatism | 40 |
| Digestive disease | 40 |
Notes: We imputed missing values by adding a binary dummy indicator for the variable whenever multi-linearity did not occur.