Long-term care use after a stroke or femoral fracture and the role of family caregivers

BMC Geriatrics

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for both samples

	Fracture of femur (n = 7884)		Stroke (n = 26,150)
	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation
Partner^*	0.541		0.669
Having children^*	0.842		0.872
Man^*	0.348		0.568
Age	76.341	9.832	72.301	9.011
Number of children	2.187	1.589	2.209	1.474
Children living in the household^*	0.093		0.114
First generation immigrant^*	0.050		0.089
Second generation immigrant^*	0.050		0.055
Municipality size 1^*	0.124		0.115
Municipality size 2^*	0.020		0.024
Municipality size 3^*	0.075		0.069
Municipality size 4^*	0.093		0.099
Municipality size 5^*	0.202		0.199
Municipality size 6^*	0.306		0.318
Municipality size 7^*	0.179		0.176
Urbanity category 1^*	0.214		0.195
Urbanity category 2^*	0.265		0.269
Urbanity category 3^*	0.178		0.194
Urbanity category 4^*	0.174		0.175
Urbanity category 5^*	0.170		0.167
Accessibility home: 0/3 stars^*	0.106		0.104
Accessibility home: 0 stars^*	0.028		0.025
Accessibility home: 2 stars^*	0.529		0.591
Accessibility home: 3 stars^*	0.336		0.280
Eligibility for long-term care t-14^*	0.090		0.048
Healthcare costs (in euros) in 2012	5917	11,682	5509	11,375
Gross income (in euros) in 2012	46,313	42,053	50,087	45,055
Financial wealth (in euros) in 2012	224,558	422,025	177,861	391,285
Value of the house (in euros) January 2012	161,500	195,706	162,677	194,586

Descriptive statistics of the two samples
*Dichotomous variables (0 = no/1 = yes). Means are the fractions of the population

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