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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics; mean, SD, n (%) of age, gender, education and marital status among participants and non-responders

From: Validation of the WHOQOL-Bref: psychometric properties and normative data for the Norwegian general population

Mean age (SD)

Participants

Non-responders

Population

n = 654

n = 2346

n = 3,827,770

50.3 (16.2)

47.8 (17.1)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Age groups

   

 18–39

188 (30)

846 (36)

1,529,499 (40)

 40–59

218 (35)

736 (31)

1,296,027 (34)

 60–75

226 (36)

765 (33)

1,002,244 (26)

Gender

   

 Women

345 (54)

1162 (50)

1,930,370 (50)

 Men

299 (46)

1185 (51)

1,897,400 (50)

Educational level

   

 Primary/Secondary school

81 (13)

1,116,735 (29)

 High school

273 (43)

1,597,491 (42)

 College/University

284 (45)

1,005,365 (26)

Marital status

   

 Married or partnered

484 (74%)

 Single

78 (12%)

 Separated/divorced/widowed

78 (12%)

  1. No data on level of education or marital status for non-responders is available. No data on mean age and marital status are provided for the population data