Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics of Health Measures and Sociodemographic Variables, Asset, and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest-Old Survey, 1995–2006, Net of Proxies
| Mean/proportion | |
|---|---|
| Computed SRH improvement | 22.2% |
| Computed SRH decline | 30.8% |
| RR-SRH improvement | 7.6% |
| RR-SRH decline | 33.4% |
| SRH: Excellent | 8.1% |
| From worse | 4.1% |
| Unchanged | 4.0% |
| SRH: Very good | 23.4% |
| From worse | 8.8% |
| Unchanged | 11.2% |
| From better | 3.4% |
| SRH: Good | 32.3% |
| From worse | 6.6% |
| Unchanged | 15.7% |
| From better | 10.0% |
| SRH: Fair | 25.4% |
| From worse | 2.7% |
| Unchanged | 11.6% |
| From better | 11.1% |
| SRH: Poor | 10.8% |
| Unchanged | 4.5% |
| From better | 6.3% |
| Age at death (SD) | 86.7 (6.1) |
| Age at survey (SD) | 82.2 (5.4) |
| Female | 64.0% |
| White | 86.9% |
| Married | 41.0% |
| Employed | 6.8% |
| Education | |
| <HS | 37.2% |
| HS graduate | 31.5% |
| Some college | 17.8% |
| College graduate | 13.5% |
| Income | |
| ≤$10,000 | 20.3% |
| >$10,000 & <$30,000 | 49.7% |
| ≥$30,000 | 30.0% |
| Chronic conditions, count, 0–7 (SD) | 1.5 (1.2) |
| ADL limitations, count, 0–5 (SD) | 0.5 (1.1) |
| Mobility limitations, count, 0–5 (SD) | 1.4 (1.6) |
| N | 19,655 |
Notes. ADL = activities of daily living; HS = high school; RR-SRH = retrospectively reported SRH; SRH = self-rated health.