Table 1. Sociodemographic and health characteristics of the research participants (Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging), 2015–2016.

Variables		%	95%CI
Sex
	Female	54.0	51.1–56.9
	Male	46.0	43.1–48.9
Age (years)
	50–59	46.9	42.6–51.3
	60–69	30.0	28.1–31.9
	70–79	15.8	14.0–17.8
	80+	7.3	6.0–8.8
Marital status
	No marital relationship	36.8	33.9–39.8
	With marital relationship	63.2	60.2–66.1
Education
	No study	12.3	10.0–14.9
	1–3 years	18.7	17.1–20.4
	4–7 years	31.6	29.1–34.2
	8+ years	37.4	34.6–40.4
	Proportion of older adults in the household	70.7	69.2–72.2
Multimorbidity
	No	36.8	34.6–39.1
	Yes	63.2	60.9–65.4
	Medications (mean)	2.2	2.1–2.3
Functional limitation
	No	84.4	83.0–85.7
	Yes	15.6	14.3–17.0
Private Health Insurance
	No	74.1	1.4–76.7
	Yes	25.9	23.3–28.6
Catastrophic health expenditure
	10% cutoff point	17.9	16.4–19.5
	25% cutoff point	7.5	6.6–8.4