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Table 1 Sample size, Number of Carers and Carers’ Age by Wave [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]

From: A longitudinal analysis of mental and general health status of informal carers in Australia

Wave

Sample size

Number of Carers

Carer’s Mean Age

Carer’s Minimum Age

Carer’s Maximum Age

Wave 5 (2005)

9843

670

49.9

15

89

Wave 6 (2006)

9328

655

50.5

15

91

Wave 7 (2007)

9076

566

51.4

15

90

Wave 8 (2008)

8971

610

51.3

15

88

Wave 9 (2009)

9200

593

51.6

15

89

Wave 10 (2010)

9950

642

51.4

15

89

Wave 11 (2011)

12,980

908

51.6

15

90

Wave 12 (2012)

12,903

989

51.5

15

90

Wave 13 (2013)

12,986

908

52.9

15

92

Wave 14 (2014)

13,143

975

52.9

15

90

Wave 15 (2015)

13,030

900

52.2

15

89

  1. Note: Table 1 presents sample size, number of carers and average age of carers in each wave of HILDA data