Table 1.
Exclusions of cases due to missing data (verbal fluency, delayed recall, MMSE*) and due to suspected dementia (MMSE-score <4).
Table 2.
Basic distributions of the variables used for analysis by country and survey wave after restriction to cases who participated in SHARE for the first time.
Table 3.
Effects of age, sex and survey wave on verbal fluency and delayed recall for each country compared by OLS- regression; confidence intervals estimated with 2000 bootstrap samples.
Table 4.
Analyses of differences between surveys for Germany, Spain and for Sweden by cognitive domain based on T-tests after Bonferroni-correction.
Fig 1.
Scores of verbal fluency (range from 0 without upper end) for Germany, Spain and Sweden for surveys 2004 and 2013 for nine age groups.
The lines between the point estimates do not indicate linear changes, they are shown to indicate differences between measurements.
Fig 2.
Scores of delayed recall (memory; range from 0 to 10) for Germany, Spain and Sweden for surveys 2004 and 2013 for nine age groups.
The lines between the point estimates do not indicate linear changes, they are shown to indicate differences between measurements.
Table 5.
Results of pairwise tests of differences between countries (Germany, Spain, and Sweden) for verbal fluency and delayed recall by age groups.