Table 1.
Sample characteristics for the total sample, the subsample, and the two age groups at t 1 and t 2
| t 1 | t 2 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total n = 6092 |
Subsamplea | Total n = 3050 |
Subsamplea | |||||
| n = 660 | 40–64 n = 385 |
65+ n = 275 |
n = 313 | 40–64 n = 193 |
65+ n = 120 | |||
| Age M (SD) | 62.90 (11.64) | 62.50 (11.39) | 54.29 (5.94) | 73.99 (5.97) | 65.38 (10.85) | 64.9 (10.30) | 58.05 (5.65) | 75.82 (5.53) |
| Gender (% female) | 48.7 | 52.9 | 54.5 | 50.5 | 49.9 | 55.6 | 55.4 | 55.8 |
| East–west (% east) | 35.7 | 44.5 | 46.0 | 42.5 | 36.0 | 43.5 | 46.6 | 38.3 |
| Employment status (% employed or looking for a job during the last 4 weeks) | 38.4 | 31.5 | 50.6 | 4.7 | 37.0 | 31.7 | 50.2 | 2.9 |
| Education M (SD) | 2.51 (0.96) | 2.43 (0.93) | 2.52 (.92) | 2.32 (.94) | 2.64 (0.96) | 2.52 (0.96) | 2.60 (0.92) | 2.40 (1.00) |
| Number of physical illnesses M (SD) | 2.38 (1.84) | 3.04 (1.99) | 2.48 (1.78) | 3.84 (2.01) | 2.49 (1.84) | 3.09 (1.91) | 2.66 (1.73) | 3.76 (1.98) |
Level of education ranging from 1 (no professional training and ≤10 years of school education) to 4 (university degree); number of physical illnesses from a list of 11 illnesses
aValues in these columns refer to the subsample of participants who indicated that they had been discriminated against at t 1 (left part of the table). Subsample characteristics in the right part of the table refer to those participants who indicated that they had been discriminated against at t 1 and also participated in the study at t 2