Effect of body mass on future long-term care use

BMC Geriatrics

Table 1 Summary statistics for key variables

	Whole sample	No care	Informal care (only) IC	Informal and privately-paid care IC + PC	Formal (care home/ LA care) FC (CH + LA)	Non-response	Died
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)
No. of observations	12,323	7041	2504	347	187	1561	683
Any mode of care	0.30	0.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	n/a	n/a
Informal care	0.27	0.00	1.00	0.31+	0.56^a	n/a	n/a
Privately-paid care	0.04	0.00	0.00	1.00	0.09^a	n/a	n/a
Formal (LA care)	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.95^a	n/a	n/a
Formal (care home)	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.10^a	n/a	n/a
Underweight (t-1)	0.01	0.01^a	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.03^a
Overweight (t-1)	0.44	0.47^a	0.39^a	0.38^b	0.36^b	0.41^b	0.40^b
Obese (t-1)	0.27	0.24^a	0.36^a	0.33^b	0.32	0.27	0.23^a
BMI (t-1)	27.73	27.41^a	28.81^a	28.11	28.52^b	27.61	26.87^a
	[4.77]	[4.28]	[5.40]	[5.51]	[6.38]	[4.88]	[5.29]

^aindicates that the average for a specific category is statistically different from the average for the whole sample at a 1% level of significance, ^b - at the 5% level and + − at the 10% level

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