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%