Table 4.

Comparison of SF-36 normative data by age and gender groups based on raw domain scores

Age groups (years)	Population norms	Gender groups	Statistics	PF	RP	BP	GH	VT	SF	RE	MH
18–24	1997–1998	Female (n = 398)	Mean	96	89	83	71	73	83	82	75
	2020	Female (n = 115)	Mean	92.13	81.74	79.35	67.43	55.78	78.37	73.62	63.79
			SD	14.20	27.77	22.60	21.71	22.80	23.72	35.73	21.26
	1997–1998	Male (n = 248)	Mean	97	91	86	76	81	89	88	81
	2020	Male (n = 33)	Mean	96.06	86.36	89.39	77.58	66.67	83.71	76.77	72.73
			SD	10.14	28.01	15.50	19.13	22.45	18.35	36.78	21.74
25–34	1997–1998	Female (n = 624)	Mean	94	81	79	66	70	80	78	70
	2020	Female (n = 204)	Mean	87.67	77.57	75.07	63.75	52.06	74.94	73.20	60.98
			SD	20.94	35.04	25.18	20.87	24.00	25.11	37.30	24.95
	1997–1998	Male (n = 359)	Mean	97	89	84	70	78	86	90	76
	2020	Male (n = 89)	Mean	92.81	88.76	84.83	68.31	63.48	82.44	85.02	67.19
			SD	16.27	25.00	19.39	22.22	22.24	23.44	30.16	22.43
35–44	1997–1998	Female (n = 736)	Mean	89	74	75	60	65	76	72	67
	2020	Female (n = 168)	Mean	85.45	75.89	74.32	61.58	58.45	76.56	76.19	64.62
			SD	22.05	35.56	26.89	24.45	23.62	25.85	34.83	24.22
	1997–1998	Male (n = 442)	Mean	93	83	81	66	74	83	86	75
	2020	Male (n = 141)	Mean	90.67	85.11	81.91	63.19	62.66	82.27	81.32	69.76
			SD	17.58	30.47	20.24	22.54	22.48	22.27	32.70	21.21
45–54	1997–1998	Female (n = 379)	Mean	82	67	69	57	62	75	69	64
	2020	Female (n = 157)	Mean	75.76	69.11	69.09	54.87	60.83	77.55	71.97	69.45
			SD	27.90	38.41	25.13	25.61	24.16	24.26	38.21	23.10
	1997–1998	Male (n = 251)	Mean	90	77	80	61	70	82	80	72
	2020	Male (n = 147)	Mean	89.18	82.82	82.09	61.12	66.60	83.42	85.49	73.03
			SD	17.31	31.35	20.00	22.23	22.03	20.75	29.73	21.67
55–64	1997–1998	Female (n = 133)	Mean	76	58	67	53	62	76	63	66
	2020	Female (n = 158)	Mean	71.99	67.09	71.11	55.19	61.20	77.85	70.25	70.84
			SD	27.00	40.31	25.54	25.40	26.75	28.04	39.92	25.93
	1997–1998	Male (n = 109)	Mean	84	72	72	57	67	80	80	73
	2020	Male (n = 138)	Mean	77.83	77.72	77.36	53.95	66.67	83.33	83.33	75.36
			SD	26.07	35.19	24.99	21.52	22.52	24.79	30.47	20.66
65 +	1997–1998	Female (n = 59)	Mean	59	50	58	43	50	68	56	62
	2020	Female (n = 155)	Mean	63.42	56.77	68.34	53.19	64.23	78.15	66.02	73.11
			SD	27.01	40.72	26.22	21.46	23.67	26.48	40.29	21.74
	1997–1998	Male (n = 56)	Mean	74	61	66	52	63	77	71	70
	2020	Male (n = 195)	Mean	76.51	67.56	77.29	53.92	71.33	84.62	75.38	79.51
			SD	23.10	37.60	22.76	21.98	21.20	22.86	34.65	18.93

PF physical functioning, RP role-physical, BP bodily pain, GH general health, VT vitality, SF social functioning, RE role-emotional, MH mental health, SD standard deviation

1997–1998 population norms: [32]