Table 1.
Characteristics of all Aussiedler from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) and of cohort members upon arrival in Germany together with the accrued person time in the respective categories of the covariables.
| cohort | all Aussiedler from the FSU to NRW | |||
| covariable | category | person years* | individuals (%) | individuals (%) |
| sex | male | 117,597 | 16,734 (48.66) | 133,807 (47.56) |
| female | 124,548 | 17,659 (51.34) | 147,549 (52.44) | |
| age group§ | 15–39 | 146,081 | 19,863 (57.75) | 164,799 (58.57) |
| 40–64 | 75,180 | 10,954 (31.85) | 88,467 (31.44) | |
| 65+ | 20,884 | 3,576 (10.40) | 28,090 (9.98) | |
| duration of stay† | <5 years | 146,891 | ||
| 5–8 years | 83,130 | |||
| >8 years | 12,124 | |||
| study period† | 1990–1993 | 26,494 | ||
| 1994–1997 | 78,096 | |||
| 1998–2002 | 137,555 | |||
| year of arrival | 1990–1993 | 141,832 | 14,728 (42.82) | 112,055 (39.83) |
| 1994–1997 | 76,404 | 11,441 (33.27) | 104,275 (37.06) | |
| 1998–2001 | 23,909 | 8,224 (23.91) | 65,026 (23.11) | |
| family size at arrival | single | 41,092 | 5,512 (16.03) | 44,264 (15.73) |
| 2–4 | 164,276 | 23,890 (69.46) | 194,510 (69.13) | |
| >4 | 36,777 | 4,991 (14.51) | 42,582 (15.13) | |
| population size of first city of residence | <100,000 | 140,804 | 15,343 (44.61) | 190,241 (67.62) |
| > = 100,000 | 101,341 | 19,050 (55.39) | 91,115 (32.38) | |
| total | 242,145 | 34,393(100.00) | 281,356 (100.00) | |
*person time is rounded to full person years
§number of individuals and percentage are given for the age group at arrival in Germany
†since duration of stay and calendar period are time-dependent variables, the number of individuals and percentage in the categories cannot be given