Table 1.
Participation in the 2000 SEBAS and the 2006 SEBAS follow-up (unweighted %)
| Variables | 2000 SEBAS |
2006 SEBAS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam Participation |
Exam Participation |
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| Home Interview(N = 1497) | Non-Participants(N = 474) | Participants(N = 1023) | P-valuedifferencea | Home Interview(N = 1284) | Non-Participants(N = 248) | Participants(N = 1036) | P-valuedifferencea | |
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| 53–59 | 19.0 | 12.9 | 21.9 | <0.001 | 39.1 | 50.8 | 36.3 | <0.001 |
| 60–69 | 29.1 | 23.8 | 31.5 | 24.6 | 14.5 | 27.0 | ||
| 70–79 | 40.9 | 46.0 | 38.5 | 22.5 | 16.1 | 24.0 | ||
| 80+ | 11.0 | 17.3 | 8.1 | 13.8 | 18.6 | 12.6 | ||
| Female | 44.2 | 48.1 | 42.3 | 0.036 | 47.1 | 50.4 | 46.3 | 0.249 |
| Education | ||||||||
| No formal education | 35.9 | 41.4 | 33.3 | 0.011 | 20.6 | 23.4 | 19.9 | 0.279 |
| Primary education | 38.9 | 35.7 | 40.4 | 43.3 | 44.4 | 43.1 | ||
| Secondary education or higher | 25.3 | 23.0 | 26.3 | 36.1 | 32.3 | 37.1 | ||
| Mainlander (vs other ethnicitiesb) | 17.5 | 18.6 | 17.0 | 0.461 | 11.8 | 8.1 | 12.6 | 0.044 |
| Any ADLc difficulty | 9.4 | 20.0 | 4.4 | <0.001 | 9.2 | 15.7 | 7.6 | <0.001 |
| Self-assessed health status | ||||||||
| Poor | 4.6 | 7.4 | 3.5 | 0.001 | 4.6 | 7.8 | 3.8 | 0.008 |
| Not so good | 23.9 | 24.8 | 23.5 | 20.9 | 16.0 | 22.0 | ||
| Average | 45.6 | 39.7 | 48.0 | 41.4 | 41.0 | 41.5 | ||
| Good | 12.6 | 11.5 | 13.0 | 21.2 | 19.4 | 21.6 | ||
| Excellent | 13.4 | 16.7 | 12.0 | 12.1 | 16.0 | 11.2 | ||
aChi-square test for differences by whether participated in the physical examination.
bOther ethnicities include Fukienese, Hakka and Aboriginal.
cADL (Activities of Daily Living) include: bathing, dressing, eating, getting out of bed, moving about the house and using the toilet.