Table 4 Summary statistics of continuous variables in the (confidential) Public Health Monitor sample and in the synthetic population for individuals older than 18 years
From: Constructing synthetic populations in the age of big data
Variables | DPHM sample (age > 18) | Synthetic population (age > 18) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Standard deviation | Skewness | Kurtosis | Mean | Standard deviation | Skewness | Kurtosis | |
Age | 57.06 | 17.88 | − 0.34 | − 0.79 | 48.98 | 17.91 | 0.22 | − 0.76 |
BMI | 25.73 | 4.09 | 0.87 | 1.43 | 25.71 | 4.06 | − 0.04 | 0.13 |
Property | 60.20 | 28.39 | − 0.56 | − 0.79 | 51.25 | 29.67 | − 0.10 | − 1.23 |
Income | 58.10 | 25.89 | − 0.26 | − 0.94 | 56.57 | 28.00 | − 0.35 | − 1.00 |