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Table 1 Characteristics of study population by sex and number of children (N = 890,544)

From: The role of children and their socioeconomic resources for the risk of hospitalisation and mortality – a nationwide register-based study of the total Swedish population over the age 70

Number of children

Men (n = 401,997)

Women (n = 488,547)

0

n = 79,653

1

n = 79,268

2

n = 142,256

3

n = 68,807

4

n = 21,905

≥5

n = 10,108

0

n = 75,236

1

n = 103,136

2

n = 174,801

3

n = 88,242

4

n = 30,919

≥5

n = 16,213

Median age at death (years)

83.90

85.36

86.04

85.84

85.12

84.13

87.46

88.16

88.82

88.67

88.09

87.23

Proportion who died (%)

50.7

44.7

37.6

39.3

45.2

53.2

39.5

36.4

29.7

30.7

35.2

42.6

Median age at first hosp. (years)

75.88

75.98

76.10

75.85

75.45

75.17

77.50

77.34

77.40

77.01

76.58

76.22

Proportion with hospitalisation (%)

72.5

73.9

71.0

72.8

76.5

79.1

70.6

72.4

68.8

70.3

74.4

78.7

Mean age at first birth (years)

30.24

27.88

26.23

25.10

23.89

27.27

25.02

23.38

22.24

21.19

Marrieda (%)

40.23

73.70

80.37

79.55

76.51

73.30

38.73

56.56

63.66

61.48

57.34

50.70

Index person’s educationa

 Basic (%)

59.15

50.16

45.63

47.40

53.42

64.03

48.84

56.04

52.16

53.58

60.66

71.57

 Secondary (%)

28.62

34.93

36.16

32.89

30.23

26.12

32.32

32.11

33.63

31.75

28.74

23.13

 Tertiary (%)

12.23

14.91

18.20

19.71

16.35

9.85

18.84

11.85

14.21

14.67

10.59

5.30

Partner’s educationa,b

 Basic (%)

50.09

52.29

46.41

46.28

52.37

62.71

48.84

51.42

47.19

49.45

56.76

68.78

 Secondary (%)

33.62

33.96

36.01

34.66

31.20

26.56

34.54

34.42

35.11

31.60

27.50

22.52

 Tertiary (%)

16.29

13.75

17.59

19.05

16.43

10.73

16.62

14.16

17.70

18.96

15.74

8.61

Children’s educationa

 Basic (%)

 

10.98

2.42

1.20

0.96

0.85

 

12.61

3.29

1.77

1.29

1.27

 Secondary ≤2 yrs. (%)

 

30.70

21.76

18.16

18.39

20.33

 

30.63

23.22

20.40

21.24

24.33

 Secondary > 2 yrs. (%)

 

16.13

15.63

14.76

16.12

17.79

 

15.45

14.96

14.39

15.86

17.76

 Tertiary ≤2 yrs. (%)

 

17.24

21.48

20.58

20.10

20.60

 

17.15

21.48

21.11

20.57

21.18

 Tertiary > 2 yrs. (%)

 

24.95

38.71

45.30

44.42

40.43

 

24.16

37.05

42.33

41.04

35.46

  1. aAt study entry; bonly married individuals included