Research Article
Age-Friendliness and Life Satisfaction of Young-Old and Old-Old in Hong Kong
Table 1
Descriptive statistics of sociodemographic variables (mean and SD in age) by age group.
| Variables | | Young-old | Old-old | ( = 365) | ( = 354) |
| Age | Mean ± SD | 68.91 (2.82) | 80.29 (4.27) |
| | Levels | Percentage |
| Gender | Female | 72.1% | 65.8% | Male | 27.9% | 34.2% |
| Marital status | Single | 6.8% | 2.3% | Married | 60.8% | 44.9% | Widowed | 24.7% | 47.7% | Divorced | 6.6% | 4.3% | Others | 1.1% | 0.8% |
| Education level | Never | 12.6% | 32.2% | Primary school | 39.6% | 41.5% | Secondary | 39.8% | 23.2% | Diploma or higher diploma | 2.8% | 2% | Degree or above | 5.2% | 1.1% |
| Health | Bad | 15.1% | 15.8% | General | 52.1% | 50.0% | Good | 19.7% | 22.1% | Very good | 10.4% | 9% | Excellent | 2.7% | 3.1% |
| Expenditure | Very insufficient | 1.4% | 1.7% | Insufficient | 14.5% | 13.6% | Just enough | 64.1% | 66.1% | Sufficient | 17.5% | 16.9% | Very sufficient | 2.5% | 1.7% |
| Income | <6000 | 54.8% | 76.3% | 6001–10000 | 20% | 11.8% | 10001–20000 | 11.5% | 5.4% | 20001 or above | 4.7% | 2.5% | N/A | 9% | 4% |
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