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Table 2 Agreement between responses to going from school to full-time education or university question and age finished full-time education question, by age and gender ( n= 7713)

From: Validity of two simple measures for estimating life-course socio-economic position in cross-sectional postal survey data in an older population: results from the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project (NorStOP)

 

“No”, did not go from school to full-time education or university

Total (n = 6767)

Female

Male

50–59

60–69

70–79

80+

Age finished full-time education n (%)

Age given

177

100 (2.7)

77 (2.5)

21 (1.0)

48 (2.3)

59 (3.2)

49 (5.9)

Left blank

6590

3625 (97.3)

2965 (97.5)

2013 (99.0)

2036 (97.7)

1757 (96.8)

784 (94.1)

 

“Yes”, did go from school to full-time education or university

Total (n = 814)

Female

Male

5059

6069

7079

80+

Age finished full- time education n (%)

     

Age given

684

422 (83.2)

262 (85.3)

361 (85.1)

162 (84.0)

109 (87.2)

52 (72.0)

Left blank

130

85 (16.8)

45 (14.7)

63 (14.9)

31 (16.1)

16 (12.8)

20 (28.0)