Table 2.

Descriptive characteristics of the study population at baseline.

	Men (N = 5527)			Women (N = 7683)
	Czech towns (N = 1579)	Russia (N = 1364)	Poland (N = 2584)	Czech towns (N = 2203)	Russia (N = 2438)	Poland (N = 3042)
Age (Mean, SD)	64.4 (4.2)	64.0 (4.5)	62.6 (5.1)	63.1 (4.3)	63.1 (4.6)	61.8 (5.2)
CASP-19 score (Mean, SD)	35.5 (9.9)	34.5 (9.3)	38.0 (9.3)	34.3 (10.2)	33.1 (8.5)	36.8 (8.9)
CASP-12v.1 score (Mean, SD)	22.0 (6.6)	20.8(6.1)	24.4 (6.2)	21.1 (6.9)	19.8 (5.7)	23.7 (6.1)
CASP-12v.2 score (Mean, SD)	22.8 (6.7)	21.4 (6.4)	25.2(6.3)	22.0 (6.8)	20.6 (5.8)	24.8 (6.1)
CASP-12v.3 score	22.0 (6.5)	21.3 (6.3)	24.2 (6.0)	21.1 (6.7)	20.4 (5.7)	23.7 (5.8)
Marital status (%)
Married or cohabiting	85.1	85.1	85.0	65.1	54.4	62.0
Single, divorced/separated	9.3	7.6	8.9	14.2	16.3	13.9
Widowed	5.5	7.3	5.8	20.4	29.3	24.0.
Missing	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.1
Education level (%)
Primary	8.0	21.0	13.9	23.5	15.9	19.0
Vocational	46.4	20.9	31.5	33.4	27.1	15.8
Secondary	31.1	33.5	34.0	35.6	37.7	45.3
University	13.7	24.6	20.5	7.0	19.3	19.8
Missing	0.8	0.0	0.1	0.5	0.0	0.1
Health status
Very good and good	27.4	8.3	25.5	30.0	3.0	20.4
Average	54.8	60.3	54.5	54.9	62.0	58.7
Poor and very poor	17.2	31.4	19.9	14.4	35.0	20.7
Missing	0.6	0.0	0.1	0.7	0.0	0.2
Material deprivation
Low (0)	53.3	23.7	51.6	44.4	15.2	41.6
Medium (1–6)	39.9	45.0	37.6	47.4	50.0	43.2
High (7–12)	4.9	31.3	9.4	6.0	34.8	14.2
Missing	1.9	0.0	1.4	2.2	0.0	1.0
Economic activity
Pensioner, still employed	12.2	–	13.5	7.7	–	8.7
Pensioner, not employed	87.0	100.0	86.5	91.4	100.0	91.2
Missing	0.8			0.9	0.0	0.1