Table 1.

Characteristics of the study sample, Germany, 2014

	Study population % (95 % CI)a
Sex (n = 1,519)
Male	47.6 (44.2–51.0)
Female	52.5 (49.0–55.8)
Age (n = 1,519)
18–39 years	31.5 (28.3–35.0)
40–59 years	33.1 (29.9–36.4)
60–69 years	16.3 (14.2–18.5)
70–79 years	14.3 (12.3–16.6)
≥80 years	4.8 (3.7–6.2)
Geographic region (n = 1,512)b
Eastern Federal States	19.1 (16.7–21.7)
Western Federal States	80.9 (78.3–83.3)
Underlying chronic disease (n = 1,501)	41.1 (37.8–44.5)
<60 years and underlying chronic disease (n = 694)	30.0 (25.9–34.4)
≥60 years and underlying chronic disease (n = 807)	61.2 (56.4–65.8)
Migration background (n = 1,497)	16.2 (13.8–19.0)
Education level (n = 1,495)c
Low	39.7 (36.2–43.3)
Middle	28.9 (26.0–32.1)
High	31.4 (28.6–34.3)

^a Weighted data (totals are not weighted)

^b Eastern Federal States: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia; Western Federal States: Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg

^c Low: 9 years or less of school education; Middle: at least 10 years of school education; High: university entrance diploma