Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Partners’ leisure time truly together upon retirement

	Male partner		Female partner
	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation
Age (in years)	60.72	5.50	58.60	5.61
Age 60 or older, dummy	0.57	0.49	0.43	0.47
Retired	0.64	0.48	0.67	0.47
Employed	0.36	0.48	0.32	0.47
High school (12-year schooling)	0.12	0.32	0.10	0.30
College and more	0.15	0.36	0.11	0.31
		Household characteristics
		Mean	Standard deviation
Number of children at home		0.15	0.51
Cohabiting		0.04	0.19
Weekend diary		0.23	0.42
Winter season diary		0.25	0.42
Observations		1043

Note: Source: French Time Use Survey 1998–1999; couples with both partners of age 50–70. See Section 3 for variable definitions and sample selection steps

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