Research Article
Age Differences and Changes in Resources Essential to Aging Well: A Comparison of Sexagenarians, Octogenarians, and Centenarians
Table 1
Sample demographic characteristics.
| Variables | Time 1 | Time 2 | | | % | | % |
| Sex | | | | | 1.59 | āMale | 104 | 32.4 | 60 | 29.9 | | āFemale | 217 | 67.6 | 141 | 70.1 | |
| Race | | | | | 2.61 | āBlack | 89 | 27.7 | 62 | 30.8 | | āWhite | 232 | 72.3 | 139 | 69.2 | |
| Age Group | | | | | 18.86*** | ā60s | 91 | 28.3 | 70 | 34.8 | | ā80s | 93 | 29.0 | 63 | 31.3 | | ā100s | 137 | 42.7 | 68 | 33.8 | |
| Education | | | | | 6.19 | ā0ā8 years | 90 | 28.2 | 55 | 28.8 | | āHigh School | 84 | 26.3 | 42 | 22.0 | | āBusiness/trade school | 23 | 7.2 | 14 | 7.3 | | āCollege | 75 | 23.6 | 44 | 23.0 | | āGraduate school | 47 | 14.7 | 36 | 18.8 | |
| Self-rated health | | | | | 4.7 | āExcellent | 67 | 21.1 | 39 | 20.2 | | āGood | 159 | 50.2 | 93 | 48.2 | | āFair | 79 | 24.9 | 52 | 26.9 | | āPoor | 12 | 3.8 | 9 | 4.7 | |
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Because of rounding, percentages may not add to 100. .
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