Table 1.

Sample Distribution by Study Variables, CLHLS 2002

	Age groups
	65–79	80–89	90–99	100–109	80–109
Women
#, sample size	2,030	1,853	1,903	2,143	5,899
% died*	11.23	33.64	56.68	72.79	55.02
% mildly impaired	8.52	14.75	22.45	23.03	20.19
% severely impaired	4.63	16.09	28.74	40.38	28.82
% minority ethnicity	6.55	7.53	6.55	5.10	6.35
% urban residence	40.30	49.68	41.36	42.03	44.26
% 1+ years of schooling	28.42	17.17	12.94	8.55	12.74
% economic independence	30.94	12.00	5.23	2.33	6.37
% had a white-collar occupation	4.98	3.23	2.22	1.02	2.12
% access to healthcare	10.74	7.27	3.75	2.82	4.54
% currently married	49.90	15.29	3.65	0.92	6.40
#, average surviving children	4.26	2.92	2.67	2.49	2.69
% smoked in the past five years	9.66	10.12	9.77	6.90	8.87
% alcohol consumer	8.77	15.23	16.43	17.49	16.42
% religious involvements	28.92	25.30	17.86	12.05	18.18
% poor self-rated health	16.31	24.06	29.48	34.40	29.49
Men
#, sample size	2,116	1,862	1,368	586	3,816
% died*	12.79	38.73	62.11	72.25	52.24
% mildly impaired	5.57	12.86	16.99	24.26	16.07
% severely impaired	3.07	8.55	20.54	26.53	15.60
% minority ethnicity	5.85	5.70	6.36	4.71	5.79
% urban residence	41.06	46.91	43.31	42.23	44.26
% 1+ years of schooling	73.05	67.08	59.29	45.72	61.05
% economic independence	60.55	35.83	26.10	18.85	29.75
% had a white-collar occupation	19.87	14.52	11.14	7.68	12.27
% access to healthcare	22.51	20.06	15.47	11.52	17.12
% currently married	76.45	47.07	27.26	13.79	34.89
#, average surviving children	3.84	3.40	3.14	2.99	3.25
% smoked in the past five years	51.06	43.30	33.41	24.08	36.83
% alcohol consumer	41.58	42.28	35.86	30.37	38.17
% religious involvements	13.36	11.62	10.41	9.60	10.88
% poor self-rated health	13.83	20.28	23.57	30.72	23.04

Note: (1) unweighted. (2)

^*reflecting % between 2002 and 2005, and all others were measured in 2002.