Table 1.
Comparisons of demographic statistics in the sample and German population.
| Sample |
Census data (2011) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | % | |
| Age in years (M = 48.58, SD = 16.50) | |||
| 18–30 | 268 | 18 | 17 |
| 30–40 | 204 | 13 | 14 |
| 40–50 | 300 | 20 | 20 |
| 50–65 | 376 | 25 | 24 |
| 65+ | 365 | 24 | 25 |
| Gender | |||
| Female | 774 | 51 | 51 |
| Male | 739 | 49 | 49 |
| Education (M = 1.95, SD = 0.84) | |||
| Low (1: lower secondary school diploma, or below) | 576 | 38 | 43 |
| Medium (2: intermediate secondary school diploma) | 433 | 29 | 29 |
| High (3: university qualifying school diploma, or above) | 504 | 33 | 28 |
N = 1513 participants of an Online Access Panel representative of the German population with regard to age, gender, education, and federal state of residence. Surveyed between 9 and 14 April 2020. Census data retrieved from https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de.