Table 1.

Distribution of Background Characteristics in Two Cohort Samples

	CALAS: 1989 cohort (N = 1200)	SHARE-Israel: 2005 cohort (N = 379)	Difference test
Age			t(1577) = 10.04***
M	83.10	80.06
SD	5.32	4.44
Gender (%)			χ2(1, N=1579) = 4.17*
Women	44.9	50.9
Men	55.1	49.1
Origin (%)			χ2(2, N=1579) = 58.17***
Asia-Africa	32.7	30.6
Europe-America	37.0	56.2
Israel	30.3	13.2
Educationa			t(1525) = −6.06***
M	1.96	2.54
SD	1.58	1.66
Marital status (%)			χ2(1, N=1573) = 9.54**
Currently unmarriedb	53.4	55.7
Married	46.6	44.3
Income (%)			χ2(1, N=1529) = 1.50
Only national insurance	41.8	38.2
Other sources	58.2	61.8
Self-rated healthc			t(1560) = −1.80
M	1.98	2.07
SD	0.84	0.93
Home care (%)			χ2(1, N=1460) = 4.81*
Not receiving	65.6	71.8
Receiving	34.4	28.2

Note. Data of individual variables were occasionally missing for 0–102 and 0–17 participants in the CALAS and SHARE-Israel, respectively.

^aRated on a scale from 0 (pre-primary education) to 6 (second stage tertiary education).

^bIncludes the categories “single,” “divorced,” and “widower.”

^cRated on a scale from 1 (bad) to 4 (excellent).

^*p < .05,

^**p < .01,

^***p < .0001.