Table 2.
Descriptive statistics (N = 3851 wave pairs)
| Variable | Category | % | N | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics (2014) | Gender | Male | 45 | 1785 |
| Female | 54 | 2066 | ||
| Age | 29 years and younger | 20 | 771 | |
| 30 to 59 years | 56 | 2171 | ||
| 60 years and older | 24 | 909 | ||
| Employment status | Employed | 59 | 2233 | |
| Job seeking/Incapacitated | 9 | 339 | ||
| Retired or early retirement | 16 | 609 | ||
| Student | 8 | 308 | ||
| Housewife/husband | 8 | 312 | ||
| Urbanisation level | Highly or very urbanized (1500 or more inhabitants/km2) | 46 | 1757 | |
| Moderately urbanized (1000 to 1500 inhabitants/km2) | 24 | 927 | ||
| Non-urbanized area (Less than 1000 inhabitants/km2) | 30 | 1136 | ||
| Life events (2016) | Respondents experiencing a life event | Child born in household | 3 | 98 |
| Partnership dissolution | 1 | 48 | ||
| Partnership formation | 1 | 55 | ||
| Started or changed education programme | 4 | 139 | ||
| Started working | 2 | 66 | ||
| Stopped working | 3 | 116 | ||
| New job | 9 | 354 |