Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics.

	The U.S.			Korea
	Total	Female	Male	Total	Female	Male
Dependent variables
Healthy aging (%)	15.11	15.77	14.22	11.58	6.085	19.29
Chronic diseases (%)	60.91	57.14	65.92	38.49	37.29	40.18
Disability (%)	16.96	18.33	15.14	5.829	6.441	4.971
Cognitive function (%)	76.60	76.53	76.69	60.00	49.42	74.86
Depressive symptoms (%)	36.37	39.65	32.03	25.23	28.90	20.10
Social engagement (%)	46.68	45.11	48.77	24.79	15.79	37.39
Independent variables
Age	74.40	74.83	73.83	73.33	74.00	72.40
Gender (female = 1)	0.570	—	—	0.583	—	—
Race (1 = white)	0.875	0.867	0.885	—	—	—
Educational attainment
Less than high school	0.181	0.190	0.170	0.767	0.894	0.588
High school	0.581	0.622	0.526	0.165	0.087	0.276
College or higher	0.238	0.188	0.304	0.068	0.019	0.136
Spousal accompaniment	0.590	0.470	0.749	0.655	0.487	0.891
Income (Log.)	10.51	10.34	10.73	9.103	8.984	9.269
Smoke	0.091	0.086	0.097	0.111	0.027	0.230
Drink	0.517	0.452	0.603	0.566	0.805	0.230
Exercise	0.391	0.325	0.478	0.327	0.266	0.413
Observations	58,018	34,132	23,886	116,384	67,134	49,250

Note: All the results are survey-weighted.