Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: nationwide register-based study

Table 1 Descriptive statistics showing relative column frequencies for the total column and relative row frequencies for the share having/not having home care

	Total		No home care		Has home care
	(N = 1 840 107)		(N = 1 658 605)		(N = 181 502)
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Age-group
65–69	551 089	29.9	540 143	98.0	10 946	2.0
70–74	521 600	28.3	502 352	96.3	19 248	3.7
75–79	338 245	18.4	311 323	92.0	26 922	8.0
80–84	225 883	12.3	186 560	82.6	39 323	17.4
85–89	137 208	7.5	89 886	65.5	47 322	34.5
90 +	66 082	3.6	28 341	42.9	37 741	57.1
Sex
Men	858 499	46.7	795 841	92.7	62 658	7.3
Women	981 608	53.3	862 764	87.9	118 844	12.1
Household type
Cohabiting	1 188 779	64.6	1 134 175	95.4	54 604	4.6
Living alone	651 328	35.4	524 430	80.5	126 898	19.5
Level of education
Primary	625 305	34.0	537 230	85.9	88 075	14.1
Secondary	746 632	40.6	682 906	91.5	63 726	8.5
Under-graduate	191 121	10.4	178 703	93.5	12 418	6.5
Graduate level	277 049	15.1	259 766	93.8	17 283	6.2
Income quartile
−25%	495 922	27.0	440 459	88.8	55 463	11.2
26–50%	513 339	27.9	431 622	84.1	81 717	15.9
51–75%	465 183	25.3	432 720	93.0	32 463	7.0
76%-	365 663	19.9	353 804	96.8	11 859	3.2
Charlson index
Healthy	1 294 759	70.4	1 219 448	94.2	75 311	5.8
Mild	342 140	18.6	292 573	85.5	49 567	14.5
Moderate	131 377	7.1	100 585	76.6	30 792	23.4
Severe	71 831	3.9	45 999	64.0	25 832	36.0
Family availability
No living children	330 944	18.0	296 582	89.6	34 362	10.4
Child not in same municipality	501 205	27.2	454 863	90.8	46 342	9.2
Child in same municipality	1 007 958	54.8	907 160	90.0	100 798	10.0