Health Behaviour and Health Assessment: Evidence from German Microdata

Table 2

Descriptive statistics (𝑛=8713).

	Male	𝑁=4132	Female	𝑁=4581
Variable	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.
Endogenous variables
Smoker	0.3192	0.4662	0.2552	0.4360
Alcohol	0.2539	0.4353	0.0740	0.2618
Obesity	0.1718	0.3773	0.1672	0.3732
Health	0.5748	0.4944	0.5573	0.4968
Predisposing variables
Age 30–44	0.3044	0.4602	0.2921	0.4548
Age 45–59	0.2561	0.4365	0.2611	0.4393
Age 60–74	0.2236	0.4167	0.2059	0.4044
Age >74	0.0699	0.2551	0.0819	0.2742
Partnership	0.7328	0.4425	0.6830	0.4653
Children	0.2796	0.4488	0.2980	0.4574
Eastern Germany	0.2851	0.4515	0.2796	0.4489
Turkey	0.0346	0.1828	0.0273	0.1629
Rest of World	0.0503	0.2187	0.0513	0.2206
Socioeconomic variables
Rel. poverty	0.0833	0.2763	0.1067	0.3088
Tenous prosperity	0.2101	0.4074	0.2438	0.4294
Higher income	0.1007	0.3009	0.0902	0.2864
Rel. prosperity	0.1416	0.3487	0.1135	0.3173
Economic worries	0.2478	0.4318	0.2617	0.4396
Retired	0.1963	0.3970	0.2065	0.4050
Unemployed	0.0296	0.1693	0.0323	0.1768
Working h. 1–21	0.0194	0.1378	0.1155	0.3196
Working h. 22–42	0.2897	0.4537	0.2685	0.4432
Working h. >42	0.2916	0.4546	0.0967	0.2956
O-level	0.2894	0.4536	0.3388	0.4734
High school	0.1087	0.3113	0.1225	0.3279
University	0.2140	0.4101	0.1570	0.3638
Education	0.0748	0.2631	0.0849	0.2788
Private health ins.	0.1498	0.3569	0.0819	0.2742
Supplemental ins.	0.1130	0.3167	0.1377	0.3447
Risk averse	0.2364	0.4250	0.3558	0.4788
Risk taker	0.2962	0.4566	0.1814	0.3854
Renovation	0.2773	0.4477	0.2794	0.4488
Mother O-level	0.2270	0.4189	0.2441	0.4296
Father O-level	0.2556	0.4362	0.2657	0.4417