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Table 1 Descriptive sample overview by survey wave, including summary statistics such as mean (SD) on walking speed, age, height, and weight and shares of women, highly educated, non-manual worker, living in a wealthy region

From: Differences in physical aging measured by walking speed: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Variables

Wave 1

Wave 2

Wave 3

Wave 4

Wave 5

Wave 6

walking speed

0.85 (0.28)

0.85 (0.27)

0.84 (0.28)

0.86 (0.28)

0.88 (0.27)

0.88 (0.28)

age

70.6 (7.4)

70.6 (7.4)

70.5 (7.6)

70.0 (7.6)

70.1 (7.5)

70.1 (7.4)

height

1.64 (0.09)

1.64 (0.10)

1.65 (0.09)

1.65 (0.09)

1.66 (0.09)

1.65 (0.10)

weight

74.5 (14.1)

75.1 (14.7)

75.9 (14.8)

76.8 (15.4)

77.8 (15.5)

77.6 (15.9)

females

54.47

54.85

53.94

53.57

52.72

52.97

higher educated

38.57

42.43

51.33

52.63

57.43

60.9

non-manual occupation

50.33

51.89

52.09

53.09

55.29

57.47

wealthier region

50.06

49.86

50.58

52.24

51.98

51.63

unweighted N

6107

5458

5181

6213

6330

6347