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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics

From: Evaluating the reliability and validity of SF-8 with a large representative sample of urban Chinese

 

n (or mean)

% (or SD)

Age (years)

 20–30

4667

42.9%

 31–40

3453

31.7%

 41–50

1766

16.2%

 51–60

614

5.6%

 60+

385

3.5%

Gender

 Men

5714

52.5%

 Women

5171

47.5%

Education

 None

300

2.8%

 Elementary school

799

7.3%

 Some HS or HS graduate

3144

28.9%

 Some college or college graduate

5989

55.0%

 Graduate school or more

653

6.0%

Monthly income

  < 2000 CNY

2884

26.5%

 2000–4999 CNY

3291

30.2%

 5000–7999 CNY

3093

28.4%

 8000–15,000 CNY

1152

10.6%

  > 15,000 CNY

465

4.3%

  1. Note: CNY = Chinese Yuan