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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2012 May;49(2):575–606. doi: 10.1007/s13524-012-0096-x

Table A1.

Regression coefficients and mean values used in the calculation of Figure 2

Variable Variable #
(i)
Coefficient
i)
Value for Xi (mean value
unless otherwise indicated)
Constant 0 0.0295
Gender 1 0.5612 0 for women, 1 for men
Mean age (in decades) 2 −0.0768 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 (corresponding to a mean age of 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, or 90 years)
Age range (in decades) 3 −0.0136 2.4495
Study age (in decades) 4 −0.0221 4.3020
Enrollment period (in years) 5 0.0067 4.6597
Years between enrollment and start of follow-up 6 0.0567 0.7200
Follow-up duration (years) 7 −0.0021 10.6700
Log n 8 0.0472 9.4883
Interactions
  Gender × Mean age at enrollment 9 −0.0623 Product of Gender and Mean age
Regions
  Scandinavia 10 0.0069 0.1861
  United States 11 0.1284 0.2991
  United Kingdom, Canada, Oceania 12 0.1621 0.1412
  East Europe 13 0.1263 0.0268
  China and Japan 14 0.0228 0.0261
  Bangladesh, Lebanon 15 0.4511 0.0348
Controls (1 = Yes)
  Age 16 −0.1464 0.4500
  SES 17 −0.1202 0.2200
  Social ties 18 0.0902 0.1200
  Previous stress 19 −0.0934 0.0400
Death rate imputed (1 = Yes) 20 −0.1300 0.2375
Subjective quality assessment 21 0.1334 2.3000