Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics of the 64,940 Person-Observations From 38,456 Persons Over Waves 2, 4, 5, and 6 in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.

	Women					Men
	Total No.	No. of Persons	%	Mean (SD)	Within- Person SD	Total No.	No. of Persons	%	Mean (SD)	Within- Person SD
Age at interview	38,172	22,153		65.4 (9.59)	1.93	26,768	16,303		65.2 (9.25)	1.93
Partnership status
Have a spouse/partner	21,125	13,223	55.3			21,041	13,131	78.6
No spouse/partner	17,047	9,447	44.7			5,727	3,426	21.4
Years of education	38,172	22,153		10.6 (4.17)		26,768	16,303		11.5 (4.51)
Employment status
Working	9,633	6,532	25.2			8,488	5,870	31.7
Not working	28,539	16,947	74.8			18,280	11,512	68.3
Self-rated health	38,172	22,153		2.9 (1.07)	0.42	26,768	16,303		3.1 (1.06)	0.42
ADL limitations	38,172	22,153		2.2 (3.30)	1.26	26,768	16,303		1.26 (2.55)	0.98
Country
Austria	2,785	1,641	7.3			1,875	1,164	7.0
Germany	2,489	1,722	6.5			2,059	1,435	7.7
Sweden	2,787	1,598	7.3			2,337	1,409	8.7
Netherlands	1,867	1,087	4.9			1,397	856	5.2
Spain	3,170	1,909	8.3			2,047	1,376	7.7
Italy	3,009	1,628	7.9			2,172	1,229	8.1
France	3,584	1,958	9.4			2,518	1,455	9.4
Denmark	2,652	1,463	7.0			2,039	1,155	7.6
Switzerland	2,127	1,091	5.6			1,883	1,011	7.0
Belgium	4,043	2,169	10.6			3,426	1,861	12.8
Czech Republic	3,980	2,363	10.4			2,013	1,341	7.5
Slovenia	1,698	1,074	4.5			1,201	773	4.5
Estonia	3,981	2,450	10.4			1,801	1,238	6.7

Note. Total no. = number of total person-observations; no. of persons = number of unique person; SD = overall standard deviation; within-person SD = within-person standard deviation; ADL limitations = limitations in daily activities.