Table 2.
Life satisfaction in wave t stratified by interview status in the following wave
| Percent Distribution | Average Life Satisfaction | |||||||
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| Response status in following wave | 65–74 | 75–84 | 85+ | All | 65–74 | 75–84 | 85+ | All |
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| 1. Interviewed, value reported | 88.7 | 81.9 | 63.0 | 83.1 | 3.93 | 3.97 | 4.02 | 3.96 |
| [0.008] | [0.011] | [0.019] | [0.007] | |||||
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| 2–4. Interviewed, no value reported | ||||||||
| 2. Item non-response | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 3.61*** | 3.82* | 3.87 | 3.75*** |
| [0.089] | [0.086] | [0.113] | [0.055] | |||||
| 3. Proxy interview, no cognitive limitation | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 3.98 | 3.87 | 3.90 | 3.92 |
| [0.069] | [0.081] | [0.090] | [0.046] | |||||
| 4. Proxy interview, cognitive limitations | 0.7 | 2.5 | 6.8 | 2.1 | 3.80 | 3.88* | 3.82*** | 3.84*** |
| [0.092] | [0.048] | [0.052] | [0.033] | |||||
| All, rows 2–4 | 2.2 | 4.5 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 3.82** | 3.87*** | 3.84*** | 3.85*** |
| [0.048] | [0.038] | [0.042] | [0.024] | |||||
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| 5. Not interviewed, alive | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 3.86** | 3.9** | 3.89** | 3.88*** |
| [0.029] | [0.035] | [0.061] | [0.021] | |||||
| 6. Not interviewed, dead | 4.3 | 8.6 | 22.3 | 8.1 | 3.61*** | 3.7*** | 3.86*** | 3.73*** |
| [0.034] | [0.029] | [0.029] | [0.017] | |||||
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| All, rows 2–6 | 11.3 | 18.1 | 37.1 | 17.0 | 3.76*** | 3.79*** | 3.86*** | 3.80*** |
| [0.020] | [0.019] | [0.022] | [0.012] | |||||
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| All | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 3.91 | 3.94 | 3.96 | 3.93 |
| [0.008] | [0.010] | [0.016] | [0.006] | |||||
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| Number of observations | 20,246 | 14,365 | 4,849 | 39,460 | ||||
Notes: The square brackets show the standard errors of the means that are adjusted for clustering at the person-level. The stars indicate statistically significant differences from the mean in row 1.
***
p<0.01
**
p<0.05
*
p<0.1.