Table 1.

Sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics at baseline (n = 2,729)

Gender (% females)	59.1
Age (in years: mean ± sd)	74.2 ± 5.2
Education (%):
- inadequately completed general education	1.3
- general elementary education	13.6
- basic vocational qualification or general elementary education and vocational qualification	46.0
- intermediate general qualification	2.5
- intermediate vocational or intermediate general qualification and vocational qualification	19.9
- general maturity certificate	1.1
- vocational maturity certificate/general maturity certificate and vocational qualification	4.0
- lower tertiary education	4.8
- higher tertiary education	7.0
Level of autonomy at former occupation (scaled 1–5: mean ± sd)	2.9 ± 1.2 (n = 2,713)
Net household equivalent income (in € per month: mean ± sd)	1,429 ± 719 (n = 2,424)

n: number of cases; sd: standard deviation.