Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics of Sample Distributions for Centenarians’ Children and Neighborhood Controls
| Centenarians’ Children | Neighborhood Controls | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | Both Sexes | Women | Men | Both Sexes | |
| Number of participants | 98 | 319 | 417 | 269 | 291 | 560 |
| Mean age of the participants | 68.9 | 69.0 | 69.0 | 71.2 | 70.7 | 71.0 |
| % Men among total number of participants | — | 76.5 | — | — | 52.0 | — |
| % Got adequate medical care when ill in childhood | 36.7 | 28.2 | 30.2 | 23.8 | 32.0 | 28.0 |
| % Household economic condition is good | 21.4 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 10.4 | 12.4 | 11.4 |
| % Had >1 year of schooling | 63.3 | 82.8 | 78.2 | 37.9 | 74.6 | 57.0 |
| % Currently married | 74.5 | 88.4 | 85.1 | 67.3 | 73.5 | 70.5 |
| Average number of living children | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
| Mean of the social and leisure activity index | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.4 |