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hhcompe

Number of household members aged 70 or older, excluding respondent

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Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
inapplicable	-8	331	84.65%
1+	1	60	15.35%
	Total	391	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
1.0	331	1.0	1.0	0	60

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
Don't know	-1	4	0.56%
	0	581	80.92%
1+	1	133	18.52%
	Total	718	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.19	4	0	1.0	0.39	714

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	10861	84.73%
1+	1	1957	15.27%
	Total	12818	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.15	0	0	1.0	0.36	12818

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	10653	84.01%
1+	1	2027	15.99%
	Total	12680	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.16	0	0	1.0	0.37	12680

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	9998	83.54%
1+	1	1970	16.46%
	Total	11968	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.16	0	0	1.0	0.37	11968

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
inapplicable	-8	1	0.01%
	0	10093	83.86%
1+	1	1941	16.13%
	Total	12035	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.16	1	0	1.0	0.37	12034

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	10853	84.29%
1+	1	2023	15.71%
	Total	12876	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.16	0	0	1.0	0.36	12876

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	11696	85.04%
1+	1	2058	14.96%
	Total	13754	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.15	0	0	1.0	0.36	13754

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	12019	85.1%
1+	1	2104	14.9%
	Total	14123	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.15	0	0	1.0	0.36	14123

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	12715	85.85%
1+	1	2096	14.15%
	Total	14811	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.14	0	0	1.0	0.35	14811

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
	0	15192	85.54%
	1	2319	13.06%
2+	2	250	1.41%
	Total	17761	100.0%

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.16	0	0	2.0	0.4	17761

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