Table A-1.

Selected characteristics of the analysis sample

	2006 %	2008 %	2010 %	2012 %
A. Age
15–29	39.1	36.7	37.5	42.4
30–44	21.9	21.1	21.5	20.4
45–59	20.5	20.8	18.7	17.0
60–74	14.0	15.2	15.3	11.4
75+	4.6	6.2	7.1	8.8
B. Percent female by age
15–29	53.0	52.9	53.1	51.9
30–44	57.0	55.5	55.3	50.9
45–59	53.7	54.7	56.8	62.4
60–74	50.0	49.7	50.5	51.2
75+	42.6	42.4	46.7	54.5
C. Percent with five or more years education by age
15–29	69.2	69.3	66.8	63.1
30–44	57.0	56.8	57.6	60.9
45–59	48.8	48.6	50.7	50.2
60–74	34.8	36.1	37.5	32.2
75+	28.2	27.6	27.9	20.9
D. General health
Excellent	26.1	29.3	30.5	34.3
Very good	37.2	36.2	36.1	34.3
Good	29.0	29.4	29.1	26.8
Poor	7.4	4.6	3.9	4.1
Very poor	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4
E. Percent in poor/very poor health by age
15–29	3.3	3.3	3.1	2.3
30–44	5.5	5.7	5.1	5.5
45–59	10.2	10.4	9.2	6.8
60–74	22.7	18.7	17.8	20.2
75+	35.9	35.9	31.2	41.8
F. Relationship to primary respondent
Respondent	24.4	20.5	19.7	14.4
Spouse	17.5	16.4	15.2	10.2
Child/child-in-law	26.8	29.2	36.2	62.8
Parent/parent-in-law	29.1	32.4	27.8	11.4
Other	2.2	1.5	1.1	1.2
G. Where individual usually lives
Same HH	55.6	46.1	44.4	37.8
Same compound	13.2	14.7	14.9	18.2
Same village	5.1	6.2	7.3	5.1
Same TA	9.7	12.5	13.1	13.6
Same district	7.6	7.5	8.6	8.7
Elsewhere	8.8	12.9	11.7	16.6
H. How individual matched
First round	98.8	97.8	98.7	99.1
Second round	0.3	1.1	0.3	0.3
Hand matched	0.9	1.1	1.0	0.6
N observations	7,481	8,883	7,913	3,733
N primary respondents	1,822	1,821	1,557	526