Table 1 Sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics at baseline (n = 2,729)
Gender (% females) | 59.1 |
Age (in years: mean ± sd) | 74.2 ± 5.2 |
Education (%): | |
- inadequately completed general education | 1.3 |
- general elementary education | 13.6 |
- basic vocational qualification or general elementary education and vocational qualification | 46.0 |
- intermediate general qualification | 2.5 |
- intermediate vocational or intermediate general qualification and vocational qualification | 19.9 |
- general maturity certificate | 1.1 |
- vocational maturity certificate/general maturity certificate and vocational qualification | 4.0 |
- lower tertiary education | 4.8 |
- higher tertiary education | 7.0 |
Level of autonomy at former occupation (scaled 1–5: mean ± sd) | 2.9 ± 1.2 (n = 2,713) |
Net household equivalent income (in € per month: mean ± sd) | 1,429 ± 719 (n = 2,424) |