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Table 2 Descriptive statistics in percentages

From: Mapping chronic disease prevalence based on medication use and socio-demographic variables: an application of LASSO on administrative data sources in healthcare in the Netherlands

Variable

Training set

Dutch Population

Mean Age

40.6

40.3

Mean Wealth Percentile

50.3

50.5

Mean Income Percentile

60.7

59.9

Percentage Females

51.1

50.5

Marital Status

 Unmarried

46.5

47.0

 Divorced

7.3

7.1

 Widowed

5.4

5.2

 Married

40.8

40.7

Ethnic Group

 Moroccan

2.0

2.2

 Turkish

2.2

2.4

 Surinam

2.1

2.1

 Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

0.9

0.9

 Native

80.2

78.9

 Other western

4.0

4.2

 Other non-western

8.5

9.4

Immigrant generation

 Native

80.2

78.9

 1st generation

9.3

10.7

 2nd generation

10.5

10.4

Type of household

 1 person

15.8

16.5

 Married couple with children

39.0

39.2

 Married couple without children

20.0

19.8

 Non-married couple with children

9.1

8.3

 Non-married couple without children

6.2

6.3

 1 parent with children

8.1

7.9

 Institutional

1.2

1.4

 Other

0.5

1.4

Source of Income

 Labor

57.2

57.1

 Own company

14.8

14.7

 Wealth

0.4

0.4

 Social benefits

8.2

8.1

 Pension

18.3

17.8

 Study Grants

0.6

0.8

 Other

0.1

0.1

 No Income

0.4

1.0