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Table 2 Prevalence of activity limitation by sex and educational level for the HIS 2001 and SILC 2004, Belgium

From: Using mortality follow-up of surveys to estimate social inequalities in healthy life years

Survey

Males

  

95%

Females

  

95%

 

Education

N

Weighted %

Confidence Interval

Education

N

Weighted %

Confidence Interval

HIS

Primary education

601

36.2

31.2-41.2

Primary education

800

41.4

36.9-45.8

 

Lower secondary

902

24.2

20.6-27.8

Lower secondary

954

25.0

21.2-28.7

 

Higher secondary

1385

14.1

11.7-16.6

Higher secondary

1288

19.1

16.1-22.0

 

Higher education

1250

13.2

10.7-15.8

Higher education

1330

10.3

8.2-12.3

 

Total

4138

19.0

17.5-20.6

Total

4372

21.8

20.1-23.4

SILC

Primary education

615

39.2

35.1-43.4

Primary education

805

50.9

47.2-54.5

 

Lower secondary

841

27.2

24.1-30.4

Lower secondary

849

35.3

31.9-38.7

 

Higher secondary

1837

22.3

20.3-24.3

Higher secondary

1656

25.1

22.9-27.4

 

Higher education

1296

18.5

16.0-20.9

Higher education

1413

19.4

17.2-21.6

 

Total

4589

24.4

23.1-25.7

Total

4723

29.9

28.5-31.3