Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of in-person and telephone participants
| Variable | In-person participants |
Telephone participants |
Total sample | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| men (n = 1,048) |
women (n = 1,002) |
all | men (n = 199) |
women (n = 470) |
all | (n = 2,719) |
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| n | % | n | % | % | n | % | n | % | % | n | % | |
| Age | ||||||||||||
| 70–79 years | 596 | 56.9 | 490 | 48.9 | 53.0 | 134 | 67.3 | 213 | 45.3 | 51.9 | 1,433 | 52.7 |
| 80–89 years | 452 | 43.1 | 512 | 51.1 | 47.0 | 65 | 32.7 | 257 | 54.7 | 48.1 | 1,286 | 47.3 |
| Education | ||||||||||||
| ≤12 years | 496 | 47.3 | 491 | 49.0 | 48.1 | 121 | 60.8 | 279 | 59.4 | 59.8 | 1,387 | 51.0 |
| >12 years | 552 | 52.7 | 511 | 51.0 | 51.9 | 78 | 39.2 | 191 | 40.6 | 40.2 | 1,332 | 49.0 |
| Marital status | ||||||||||||
| Married | 856 | 81.7 | 400 | 39.9 | 61.3 | 160 | 80.4 | 174 | 37.0 | 49.9 | 1,590 | 58.5 |
| Other | 192 | 18.3 | 602 | 60.1 | 38.7 | 39 | 19.6 | 296 | 63.0 | 50.1 | 1,129 | 41.5 |
| Informant | ||||||||||||
| Spouse | 769 | 73.4 | 319 | 31.8 | 53.1 | 112 | 56.3 | 88 | 18.7 | 29.9 | 1,288 | 47.4 |
| Offspring, son/daughter-in-law | 166 | 15.8 | 421 | 42.0 | 28.6 | 15 | 7.5 | 71 | 15.1 | 12.9 | 673 | 24.8 |
| Other | 86 | 8.2 | 232 | 23.2 | 15.5 | 7 | 3.5 | 45 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 370 | 13.6 |
Informant: 30 women and 27 men among the in-person participants, and 266 women and 65 men among the telephone participants did not provide information on an informant. Other informant includes relatives, paid caregivers, friends and neighbors.