SHARE (5xSTS)
About this reference
Grgic et al. analysed SHARE wave 5 data collected in 2013 from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The analytic sample contained 45,470 participants aged 50+, of whom more than 99.5% lived at home. Participants first attempted one chair rise; only those who completed it proceeded to one timed five-rise trial. Arms remained folded across the chest, and timing stopped when the participant was fully standing after the fifth rise. The paper reports weighted performance percentiles P5, P10, P20, P30, P40, P50, P60, P70, P80, P90, and P95 by sex and 5-year age group, with higher percentiles representing faster times. FitnessNorms stores time in ascending numeric order, so site P5/P50/P95 map to source performance P95/P50/P5. Site P25 is estimated as the midpoint of source P70 and P80, and site P75 as the midpoint of source P20 and P30. The SHARE wave 5 dataset is identified by DOI 10.6103/SHARE.w5.900.
Known limitations
- The data were collected in 2013 and cover adults aged 50 and over from 14 European countries; they do not provide younger-adult or non-European reference values
- Only people who completed a preliminary chair rise proceeded to the timed test, so the percentile tables exclude inability to perform the task
- The article does not report chair height, even though chair height can affect sit-to-stand time
- The SHARE protocol used one timed trial and stopped on the fifth full stand; results from best-of-several-trial protocols or tests ending seated are not directly interchangeable
- P25 and P75 are FitnessNorms midpoint estimates from adjacent source columns, not percentiles printed in the paper; the published table values used for interpolation are rounded to whole seconds
- The 90+ cells contain 106 women and 97 men. Their tail values are less stable and include some non-monotonicity that was retained without smoothing