Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of individual-level variables for the analytic sample (n = 8037)
| SHARE |
ELSA |
Combined |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Categories | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Total sample | 6031 | 100 | 2006 | 100 | 8037 | 100.0 | |
| 0 | |||||||
| Route of exit from work | Old-age pension | 2952 | 49.0 | 601 | 30.0 | 3553 | 44.2 |
| Disability pension | 268 | 4.4 | 123 | 6.1 | 391 | 4.9 | |
| Unemployment benefit | 314 | 5.2 | 25 | 1.3 | 339 | 4.2 | |
| Sickness benefit | 106 | 1.8 | 6 | 0.3 | 112 | 1.4 | |
| Social Assistance | 34 | 0.6 | 6 | 0.3 | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Early-retirement pension | 590 | 9.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 590 | 7.3 | |
| None | 1767 | 29.3 | 1245 | 62.0 | 3012 | 37.5 | |
| Age at exit from work | >1 year before pensionable age | 2631 | 43.6 | 1332 | 66.4 | 3963 | 49.3 |
| Pensionable age ±1 year | 1799 | 29.8 | 347 | 17.3 | 2146 | 26.7 | |
| >1 year after pensionable age | 1601 | 26.6 | 327 | 16.3 | 1928 | 24.0 | |
| Country-specific quartile of household wealth | 1 (poorest) | 1090 | 18.0 | 228 | 11.4 | 1318 | 16.4 |
| 2 | 1374 | 22.8 | 438 | 21.8 | 1812 | 22.6 | |
| 3 | 1742 | 28.9 | 618 | 30.8 | 2360 | 29.4 | |
| 4 (wealthiest) | 1825 | 30.3 | 722 | 36.0 | 2547 | 31.7 | |
| Participation in activities | Yes | 3108 | 51.5 | 1104 | 55.0 | 4212 | 52.4 |
| No | 2923 | 48.5 | 902 | 45.0 | 3825 | 47.6 | |
| Partnership status | Married | 4957 | 82.2 | 1241 | 61.9 | 6198 | 77.1 |
| Other | 1434 | 23.8 | 405 | 20.2 | 1839 | 22.9 | |
| Born abroad | Yes | 5537 | 91.8 | 1893 | 94.4 | 7430 | 92.4 |
| No | 494 | 8.2 | 113 | 5.6 | 607 | 7.6 | |
| Gender | Male | 2900 | 48.0 | 938 | 46.8 | 3838 | 47.8 |
| Female | 3131 | 52.0 | 1068 | 53.2 | 4199 | 52.3 | |
| Country | Austria | 409 | 6.8 | 409 | 5.1 | ||
| Germany | 354 | 5.9 | 354 | 4.4 | |||
| Sweden | 528 | 8.8 | 528 | 6.6 | |||
| Netherlands | 559 | 9.3 | 559 | 7.0 | |||
| Spain | 364 | 6.0 | 364 | 4.5 | |||
| Italy | 340 | 5.6 | 340 | 4.2 | |||
| France | 533 | 8.8 | 533 | 6.6 | |||
| Denmark | 512 | 8.5 | 512 | 6.4 | |||
| Greece | 62 | 1.0 | 62 | 0.8 | |||
| Switzerland | 418 | 6.9 | 418 | 5.2 | |||
| Belgium | 653 | 10.8 | 653 | 8.1 | |||
| Czech Republic | 494 | 8.2 | 494 | 6.2 | |||
| Poland | 233 | 3.9 | 233 | 2.9 | |||
| Slovenia | 140 | 2.3 | 140 | 1.7 | |||
| Estonia | 432 | 7.2 | 432 | 5.4 | |||
| England | 2006 | 100.00 | 2006 | 25.0 | |||
| Year of exit event | 2003 | 0 | 215 | 10.7 | 215 | 2.7 | |
| 2004 | 85 | 1.4 | 152 | 7.6 | 237 | 3.0 | |
| 2005 | 516 | 8.6 | 184 | 9.2 | 700 | 8.7 | |
| 2006 | 352 | 5.8 | 153 | 7.6 | 505 | 6.3 | |
| 2007 | 50 | 0.8 | 154 | 7.7 | 204 | 2.6 | |
| 2008 | 0 | 141 | 7.0 | 141 | 1.8 | ||
| 2009 | 1428 | 23.7 | 288 | 14.4 | 1716 | 21.4 | |
| 2010 | 417 | 6.9 | 250 | 12.5 | 667 | 8.3 | |
| 2011 | 754 | 12.5 | 340 | 17.0 | 1094 | 13.6 | |
| 2012 | 1975 | 32.8 | 129 | 6.4 | 2104 | 26.2 | |
| 2013 | 454 | 7.5 | 0 | 454 | 5.7 | ||
| Median | Median | Median | |||||
| Household income | EUR, 2011 PPPs | 17 772 | 18 419 | 17 954 | |||
| Frailty index | 0.054 | 0.054 | 0.054 | ||||