Skip to main content

View full-text article in PMC

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2009 Jun 17;40(2):225. doi: 10.1017/S0033291709990213

Table 1.

Thirty-day, 12-month, and lifetime prevalence estimates of DSM-IV/CIDI MDE by age and gender

	Age Groups										Age Difference
	All ages		18-34		35-49		50-64		65+		Age Difference
	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)	χ²₃

I. Total
30-day	3.1	(0.2)	3.7	(0.3)	3.7	(0.3)	3.0	(0.4)	1.0	(0.3)	46.9^*
12-month	8.3	(0.3)	10.4	(0.5)	9.4	(0.5)	7.7	(0.7)	2.6	(0.4)	103.5^*
Lifetime	19.2	(0.5)	19.4	(0.8)	22.7	(0.9)	20.7	(1.2)	9.8	(0.9)	70.4^*
(n)	(9,282)		(3,033)		(2,865)		(1,922)		(1,461)
II. Females
30-day	3.9	(0.2)	5.0	(0.5)	4.5	(0.4)	3.3	(0.5)	1.5	(0.5)	24.1^*
12-month	10.2	(0.5)	13.6	(0.8)	11.3	(0.6)	9.1	(1.0)	3.7	(0.7)	63.3^*
Lifetime	22.9	(0.6)	23.7	(1.1)	26.7	(1.0)	24.6	(1.5)	13.0	(1.3)	40.8^*
(n)	(5,143)		(1,658)		(1,522)		(1,068)		(894)
III. Males
30-day	2.3	(0.2)	2.4	(0.4)	2.9	(0.5)	2.8	(0.5)	0.2	(0.2)	49.2^*
12-month	6.2	(0.4)	7.2	(0.7)	7.4	(0.8)	6.1	(0.9)	1.2	(0.5)	90.7^*
Lifetime	15.1	(0.8)	15.1	(1.2)	18.6	(1.4)	16.2	(1.4)	5.3	(1.2)	132.1^*
(n)	(4139)		(1375)		(1343)		(854)		(567)