Table 2.

Descriptive statistics by sample, 2008

Variable	Category	US sample (N = 269,105)	European sample (N = 54,066)
Health	% Poor	15.4	10.3
	% Not poor	84.6	89.8
Education	% Low	5.6	28.5
	% Middle	28.7	39.8
	% High	65.7	31.7
Sex	% Male	38.9	44.5
	% Female	61.1	55.5
Age	Mean	53.1	47.9
	Standard deviation	(12.8)	(14.0)