Table 5.
Attrition analysis
| Sweden | Netherlands | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower-Educated | Higher-Educated | Lower-Educated | Higher-Educated | |||||||||
| Stayed | Left | Died | Stayed | Left | Died | Stayed | Left | Died | Stayed | Left | Died | |
| % of Initial Sample | 49.8 | 47.8 | 2.7 | 64.6 | 35.2 | 0.24 | 42.3 | 56.4 | 1.3 | 60.3 | 39.0 | 0.7 |
| Number of Chronic Conditions at Wave 1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Number of Functional Limitations at Wave 1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| Number of Individuals | 333 | 319 | 16 | 266 | 145 | 1 | 376 | 475 | 11 | 247 | 155 | 3 |
| Number of Observations | 1,451 | 667 | 35 | 1,187 | 303 | 4 | 1,770 | 872 | 32 | 1,204 | 341 | 11 |
| United Kingdom | United States | |||||||||||
| Lower-Educated | Higher-Educated | Lower-Educated | Higher-Educated | |||||||||
| Stayed | Left | Died | Stayed | Left | Died | Stayed | Left | Died | Stayed | Left | Died | |
| % of Initial Sample | 46.9 | 45.0 | 8.1 | 67.6 | 27.1 | 5.3 | 68.7 | 22.0 | 9.3 | 77.3 | 18.0 | 4.7 |
| Number of Chronic Conditions at Wave 1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
| Number of Functional Limitations at Wave 1 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 2.3 |
| Number of Individuals | 1,855 | 1,244 | 272 | 596 | 178 | 43 | 2,987 | 493 | 356 | 1,584 | 252 | 91 |
| Number of Observations | 12,240 | 2,946 | 678 | 3,980 | 483 | 122 | 14,440 | 1,415 | 726 | 7,759 | 702 | 198 |
Notes: Data are from SHARE (Sweden and Netherlands), ELSA (United Kingdom), and HRS (United States). Stayed = observed until the last panel wave. Left = left the panel before the last wave but did not die. Died = died before the last panel wave.