Table 1 Demographic characteristics for each wave.
| Â | Wave 1 (2002/2003) (N = 11391) | Wave 2 (2004/2005) (N = 8780) | Wave 3 (2006/2007) (N = 7326) | Wave 4 (2008/2009) (N = 6623) | Wave 5 (2010/2011) (N = 6242) | Wave 6 (2012/2013) (N = 5659) | Wave 7 (2014/2015) (N = 4894) | Wave 8 (2016/2017) (N = 4219) | Wave 9 (2018/2019) (N = 3660) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Participation rate (%)a | – | 77% | 64% | 59% | 55% | 50% | 43% | 37% | 32% |
Age (SD) | 65.19 (10.23) | 66.81 (9.77) | 68.19 (9.55) | 69.65 (9.08) | 70.96 (8.66) | 72.25 (8.26) | 73.50 (7.74) | 74.06 (6.62) | 75.62 (6.36) |
Gender | |||||||||
 Female | 6205 (54%) | 4830 (55%) | 4181 (58%) | 3708 (56%) | 3500 (56%) | 3181 (56%) | 2767 (57%) | 2384 (56%) | 2092 (57%) |
 Male | 5186 (46%) | 3950 (45%) | 3354 (42%) | 2915 (44%) | 2742 (44%) | 2478 (44%) | 2127 (43%) | 1835 (44%) | 1568 (43) |
Ethnicity | |||||||||
 White | 11065 (97%) | 8586 (98%) | 7382 (99%) | 6489 (98%) | 6102 (98%) | 5527 (98%) | 4784 (98%) | 4118 (98%) | 3573 (98%) |
 Non-White | 320 (3%) | 194 (2%) | 153 (1%) | 134 (2%) | 140 (2%) | 132 (2%) | 110 (2%) | 101 (2%) | 87 (2%) |
Education | |||||||||
 Less than secondary | 4878 (43%) | 3475 (40%) | 2856 (39%) | 2404 (36%) | 2179 (35%) | 1917 (34%) | 1544 (32%) | 1255 (30%) | 1025 (28%) |
 Upper secondary | 4256 (37%) | 3481 (40%) | 3055 (42%) | 2746 (41%) | 2640 (42%) | 2434 (43%) | 2205 (45%) | 1935 (46%) | 1713 (46%) |
 Tertiary | 1257 (20%) | 1057 (20%) | 955 (19%) | 902 (23%) | 884 (23%) | 828 (23%) | 738 (23%) | 677 (24%) | 608 (26%) |
Retirement | |||||||||
 Yes | 5774 (51%) | 4776 (54%) | 4488 (61%) | 4385 (73%) | 4485 (72%) | 4447 (79%) | 4043 (81%) | 3645 (86%) | 3228 (88%) |
Employed | |||||||||
 Yes | 3607 (32%) | 2516 (29%) | 1976 (27%) | 1467 (22%) | 1107 (18%) | 771 (14%) | 534 (11%) | 340 (8%) | 233 (7%) |
Marital Status | |||||||||
 Married | 7570 (66%) | 5882 (66%) | 5054 (69%) | 4511 (68%) | 4342 (70%) | 3987 (70%) | 3501 (72%) | 3053 (72%) | 2666 (73%) |
Divorced | 857 (5%) | 687 (7%) | 613 (8%) | 535 (8%) | 510 (8%) | 468 (8%) | 406 (8%) | 364 (9%) | 327 (9%) |
 Never married | 580 (5%) | 422 (4%) | 361 (5%) | 320 (5%) | 275 (4%) | 245 (4%) | 205 (4%) | 171 (5%) | 153 (4%) |
 Partnered | 283 (2%) | 236 (3%) | 198 (3%) | 183 (3%) | 173 (3%) | 163 (3%) | 154 (3%) | 143 (3%) | 133 (4%) |
 Separated | 140 (1%) | 103 (1%) | 89 (1%) | 76 (1%) | 76 (1%) | 70 (1%) | 58 (1%) | 51 (1%) | 42 (1%) |
 Widowed | 1959 (17%) | 1448 (16%) | 1219 (17%) | 977 (15%) | 865 (14%) | 725 (13%) | 569 (12%) | 436 (10%) | 338 (9%) |
Psychiatric Diagnosis | |||||||||
 Yes | 765 (7%) | 741 (8%) | 687 (9%) | 661(10%) | 653 (10%) | 634 (11%) | 576 (12%) | 496 (12%) | 429 (12%) |
