Table 1.

Longitudinal changes of the FI for participants of the 1982, 1984, and 1989 NLTCS and for groups A and B (i.e., groups comprised of survived individuals participating in three consecutive surveys; see text) for males and females combined (M&F), males (M), and females (F). Standard Errors (SEs) are shown in parentheses.

			NLTCS
Sample	Sex	N	1982	1984	1989	1994	1999
	M&F		.273 (.002)	.266 (.002)	.268 (.004)	.269 (.006)	.274 (.010)
1982	M		.266 (.003)	.257 (.004)	.254 (.007)	.236 (.011)	.243 (.018)*
	F		.277 (.002)	.271 (.003)	.275 (.004)	.283 (.007)	.289 (.012)*
	M&F			.257 (.002)	.259 (.003)	.261 (.005)	.266 (.008)
1984	M			.251 (.003)*	.248 (.005)*	.234 (.009)	.244 (.015)#
	F			.261 (.002)*	.263 (.003)*	.272 (.005)	.276 (.009)#
	M&F				.252 (.002)	.253 (.004)	.263 (.006)
1989	M				.241 (.004)	.231 (.007)	.234 (.010)
	F				.258 (.003)	.263 (.004)	.276 (.007)
	M&F	1129		.180 (.003)	.201 (.004)	.261 (.005)
A	M	328		.167 (.006)*	.178 (.006)	.234 (.009)
	F	801		.185 (.004)*	.211 (.004)	.272 (.005)
	M&F	749			.177 (.004)	.201 (.005)	.263 (.006)
B	M	224			.168 (.008)#	.175 (.008)	.234 (.010)
	F	525			.181 (.004)#	.212 (.006)	.276 (.007)

Note that NLTCS is the National Long Term Care Survey; p<.01,

^*p<.05,

^#p>.05 for differences between sexes.