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Table 1 Characteristics of study sample and respondents by study year and sex

From: Change in the symptom profile treated as asthma – two cross-sectional studies twenty years apart

 

Women

Men

Total

ECRHS I 1993/94

 Sample

1498

1502

3000

 Excluded

19

18

37

 Participated

1272

1188

2460

Response rate, %

 Absolute

84.9

79.1

82.0

 Adjusted

86.0

80.1

83.0

 Mean age of respondents, years

30.3

30.1

30.2

SOHOS 2014/15

 Sample

1498

1502

3000

 Excluded

165

119

284

 Participated

607

369

976

Response rate, %

 Absolute

40.5

24.6

32.5

 Adjusted

45.5

26.7

35.9

 Mean age of respondents, years

33.0

32.0

32.6

  1. Excluded = have moved abroad, unable to answer, or died; Absolute Response Rate = Participated/Sample; Adjusted Response Rate = Participated/(Sample–Excluded)