From: A model to forecast the two-year variation of subjective wellbeing in the elderly population
Variable | Description | Levels | Subjects aged 50 or more at Wave 4 | waves 4 and 5 complete cases | Final selection |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
sample size | 20429 | 13468 | 9422 | ||
Demographic | |||||
age\({}^{\star }\) (0%) | Age at baseline | >50 | 64 [58;71] | 64 [58;71] | 65 [58;72] |
country\({}^{\dagger \star }\) (0%) | Residence country | Austria | 9.64 | 10.97 | 12.19 |
Belgium | 11.42 | 12.36 | 12.96 | ||
Czech Republic | 10.22 | 7.72 | 7.26 | ||
Denmark | 6.40 | 6.65 | 6.75 | ||
Estonia | 13.83 | 15.02 | 15.93 | ||
France | 9.42 | 10.04 | 9.89 | ||
Germany | 3.58 | 3.62 | 3.44 | ||
Italy | 8.22 | 7.86 | 7.02 | ||
Slovenia | 5.68 | 6.62 | 7.26 | ||
Spain | 7.84 | 7.42 | 6.18 | ||
Sweden | 4.47 | 4.67 | 4.87 | ||
Switzerland | 9.28 | 7.06 | 6.25 | ||
gender\({}^{\star }\) (0%) | Gender | female | 58.22 | 59.21 | 64.04 |
male | 41.78 | 40.79 | 35.96 | ||
ISCED (1.16%) | Instruction level, according to ISCED 97 | 0 | 2.28 | 2.37 | 2.29 |
1 | 16.23 | 15.85 | 15.58 | ||
2 | 17.71 | 17.05 | 16.95 | ||
3 | 35.15 | 35.11 | 35.05 | ||
4 | 5.43 | 5.37 | 5.39 | ||
5 | 22.38 | 23.34 | 23.68 | ||
6 | 0.82 | 0.91 | 1.06 | ||
marital status\({}^{\dagger \star }\) (0%) | Marital status | living alone | 23.66 | 31.50 | 41.04 |
living together | 70.42 | 60.73 | 48.97 | ||
never married | 5.92 | 7.77 | 9.99 | ||
Health-related | |||||
ADL (0.01%) | Limitations in Activities of Daily Living | 0 | 92.30 | 91.84 | 91.56 |
1 | 4.91 | 5.14 | 5.37 | ||
2 | 1.41 | 1.57 | 1.63 | ||
3 | 0.71 | 0.77 | 0.72 | ||
4 | 0.26 | 0.32 | 0.34 | ||
5 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.24 | ||
6 | 0.18 | 0.13 | 0.13 | ||
CASP-12 (0%) | CASP-12 score | [12, 48] | 39 [34; 43] | 39 [34; 43] | 39 [34; 42] |
chronic diseases (0.02%) | Number of chronic diseases | 0 | 37.01 | 36.15 | 35.48 |
1 | 31.36 | 31.54 | 31.67 | ||
2 | 18.64 | 18.67 | 18.85 | ||
3 | 8.64 | 9.02 | 9.14 | ||
4 | 2.91 | 3.13 | 3.26 | ||
5 | 1.09 | 1.10 | 1.20 | ||
6 | 0.27 | 0.29 | 0.33 | ||
7 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.06 | ||
8 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ||
EURO D\({}^{\dagger \star }\) (0 %) | Depression score | 0 | 21.49 | 20.57 | 19.52 |
1 | 22.51 | 22.07 | 21.79 | ||
2 | 17.82 | 17.84 | 17.58 | ||
3 | 13.23 | 13.24 | 13.60 | ||
4 | 9.94 | 10.36 | 10.92 | ||
5 | 6.51 | 6.77 | 6.75 | ||
6 | 3.55 | 3.66 | 3.96 | ||
7 | 2.54 | 2.75 | 3.02 | ||
8 | 1.15 | 1.36 | 1.45 | ||
9 | 0.74 | 0.08 | 0.80 | ||
10 | 0.36 | 0.39 | 0.41 | ||
11 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.17 | ||
12 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | ||
health (0 %) | Self assessment of general health | 1 | 8.16 | 8.31 | 8.41 |
2 | 19.81 | 19.31 | 19.09 | ||
3 | 37.59 | 37.15 | 36.03 | ||
4 | 26.88 | 27.41 | 28.27 | ||
5 | 7.55 | 7.82 | 8.19 | ||
IADL (0.01%) | Limitations in Instrumental ADL | 0 | 88.25 | 87.78 | 87.13 |
1 | 7.95 | 8.20 | 8.63 | ||
2 | 2.25 | 2.44 | 2.55 | ||
3 | 0.78 | 0.84 | 0.91 | ||
4 | 0.36 | 0.35 | 0.38 | ||
5 | 0.20 | 0.21 | 0.20 | ||
6 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.14 | ||
7 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.06 | ||
mobility (0%) | Number of mobility limitations | 0 | 53.83 | 52.70 | 51.36 |
1 | 16.26 | 16.43 | 16.27 | ||
2 | 10.04 | 10.27 | 10.43 | ||
3 | 6.51 | 6.36 | 6.76 | ||
4 | 4.55 | 4.70 | 5.06 | ||
5 | 3.06 | 3.37 | 3.49 | ||
6 | 2.30 | 2.52 | 2.79 | ||
7 | 1.60 | 1.75 | 1.90 | ||
8 | 1.02 | 1.03 | 1.03 | ||
9 | 0.50 | 0.59 | 0.63 | ||
10 | 0.31 | 0.27 | 0.28 | ||
moderate act (0.29%) | Frequency of moderate phisical activity, 1=more than once a week; 4=hardly ever or never | 1 | 73.49 | 73.44 | 73.17 |
2 | 13.39 | 13.41 | 13.48 | ||
3 | 5.33 | 5.35 | 5.35 | ||
4 | 7.79 | 7.80 | 8.00 | ||
vigorous act (0.28%) | Frequency of vigorous phisical activity, 1= more than once a week; 4=hardly ever or never | 1 | 36.81 | 36.55 | 35.62 |
2 | 15.29 | 14.96 | 14.89 | ||
3 | 9.65 | 9.67 | 9.50 | ||
4 | 38.25 | 38.81 | 39.99 | ||
Social | |||||
left out (0%) | Feeling of being left out, 1=often; 4=never | 1 | 5.98 | 6.18 | 6.55 |
2 | 19.07 | 18.94 | 19.28 | ||
3 | 27.19 | 26.94 | 26.59 | ||
4 | 47.77 | 47.94 | 47.58 | ||
social activities (0.29%) | 1.3cmNumber of social activities | 0 | 11.80 | 11.62 | 11.05 |
1 | 20.68 | 20.55 | 20.05 | ||
2 | 24.89 | 24.72 | 24.43 | ||
3 | 21.57 | 21.83 | 22.82 | ||
4 | 12.93 | 13.08 | 13.45 | ||
5 | 5.90 | 6.03 | 6.10 | ||
6 | 1.88 | 1.80 | 1.77 | ||
7 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.33 | ||
Financial | |||||
cars\({}^{\star }\) (28.61%) | Number of owned cars | 0 | 27.29 | 26.89 | 31.61 |
1 | 53.35 | 53.51 | 52.24 | ||
2 | 19.36 | 19.59 | 16.15 | ||
current job (0.28%) | Current job status | employed | 30.18 | 29.94 | 29.31 |
retired | 62.93 | 62.90 | 63.37 | ||
unemployed | 6.89 | 7.16 | 7.31 | ||
ends meet (28.84%) | Difficulties in making ends meet,0=with great difficulty; 4=easily | 1 | 9.20 | 9.40 | 10.10 |
2 | 26.21 | 26.14 | 26.85 | ||
3 | 34.00 | 34.21 | 33.97 | ||
4 | 30.59 | 30.25 | 29.07 | ||
owner occupier\({}^{\star }\) (28.77%) | Being an owner-occupier | not owner | 24.52 | 23.91 | 26.84 |
owner | 75.48 | 76.09 | 73.16 |