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Published in final edited form as: J Cross Cult Gerontol. 2009 Mar;24(1):49–62. doi: 10.1007/s10823-008-9073-7

Table 2.

Depression, Long-Term Health Problems and Activity Limitations among Men and Women Aged 50 Years and Above

	SE^a	DK^a	DE^a	NL^a	FR^a	CH^a	AT^a	IT^a	ES^a	GR^a	SHARE^a	IL^b	HW^b	AC^b	RN^b
Depression
Women	25.1	23.1	21.3	24.6	39.6	23.9	21.9	39.5	40.2	29.9	–	41.9	39.0	42.9	50.8
Men	13.0	15.9	10.1	15.1	21.3	10.5	13.8	21.4	16.7	9.5	–	27.6	26.4	(26.4)	32.4
Long term problems
Women	57.3	60.2	60.7	46.3	51.8	41.2	43.1	48.1	62.7	41.6	55.2	58.4	54.3	62.3	69.8
Men	52.8	57.2	57.4	40.6	52.9	37.9	39.5	54.4	56.4	34.7	50.4	60.4	57.4	55.6	74.5
Activity limitations
Women	49.6	49.2	54.1	52.4	41.1	37.8	49.4	44.2	47.0	36.2	48.7	48.6	40.1	55.8	73.0
Men	43.4	45.2	48.7	40.3	37.5	31.3	43.4	34.3	39.8	27.0	39.5	44.4	39.2	43.1	65.3

Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe: First results from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, 2005 (release 0), unweighted, Tables 3A.16 and 3A.3

SHARE-Israel: preliminary release, 2006 (release 0), weighted; ( ) = less than 30 observations. Population group: HW = veteran Jewish-Israelis, AC = Arab-Israelis, RN = immigrants from Former Soviet Union. Depression—women: chi-square=8.7, p<0.05; men: chi-square=2.1, (ns). Long term problems—women: chi-square=15.6, p<0.001; long term problems—men: chi-square=14.9, p<0.001. Activity limitations—women: chi-square=31.5 p<0.001; activity limitations—men: chi-square=67.9, p<0.001