Table 1.
Background characteristics of respondents
| Characteristics | Male | Female | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||||
| Total | 214 (31.4) | 468 (68.6) | 682 (100.0) | |||
| Age groups (years) | ||||||
| <75 ≥75 |
168 (78.5) 46 (21.5) |
346 (73.9) 122 (26.1) |
514 (75.4) 168 (24.6) |
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| Mean=71.0 SD=5.1 Minimum=65.0 Maximum=87.0 | ||||||
| Residence | ||||||
| Urban Rural |
158 (73.8) 56 (26.2) |
279 (59.6) 189 (40.4) |
437 (64.1) 245 (35.9) |
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| Region | ||||||
| Tashkent City Tashkent Region |
98 (45.8) 116 (54.2) |
212 (45.3) 256 (54.7) |
310 (45.5) 372 (54.5) |
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| Education | ||||||
| Not educated Primary Low secondary Secondary Vocational education Higher |
44 (20.6) 37 (17.3) 70 (32.7) 35 (16.4) 18 (8.4) 10 (4.7) |
71 (15.2) 134 (28.7) 122 (26.1) 103 (22.0) 21 (4.5) 17 (3.6) |
115 (16.8) 171 (25.1) 192 (28.2) 138 (20.2) 39 (5.7) 27 (4.0) |
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| Marital status | ||||||
| Married Not married Divorced Widowed |
152 (71.0) 8 (3.7) 21 (9.8) 33 (15.5) |
342 (73.1) 15 (3.2) 34 (7.3) 77 (16.4) |
494 (72.4) 23 (3.4) 55 (8.1) 110 (16.1) |
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| Self-rated health status | ||||||
| Very good Good Satisfactory Bad Very bad |
13 (6.1) 51 (23.8) 87 (40.7) 45 (21.0) 18 (8.4) |
8 (1.7) 172 (36.8) 193 (41.2) 90 (19.2) 5 (1.1) |
21 (3.1) 223 (32.7) 280 (41.1) 135 (19.8) 23 (3.4) |
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| Overall health statusa | ||||||
| Healthy Not healthy |
151 (70.6) 63 (29.4) |
373 (79.7) 95 (20.3) |
524 (76.8) 158 (23.2) |
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a Overall health status constitutes combination of satisfactory, good, and very good health in ‘Healthy,’ and bad and very bad health in ‘Not healthy’ group.