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Table 3 Qualitative statistics for the age groups (N = 108)

From: Evidence-based design recommendations for prevalence studies on multimorbidity: improving comparability of estimates

Source of information

N

%

Source for P2+ (prevalence of 2 or more chronic conditions)

 Taken from paper

39

36.1%

 Calculated from paper

55

50.9%

 Extracted from graph

8

7.4%

 Estimated using P3 + a

6

5.6%

Source of age limits

 Both limits from paper

66

61.1%

 Lower limit imputed

4

3.7%

 Upper limit imputed

38

35.2%

 Both limits imputed

0

0%

  1. aUsing Holzer et al.’s [12] method