Table 3.

Weighted proportions for control variables, complete cases

Variable	Categories	Proportions
Sex	Male	0.469
	Female	0.531
Longstanding illness/disability	No	0.590
	Yes	0.410
Smoking status	Never smoked	0.399
	Former smoker	0.402
	Current smoker up to 10 p/d	0.064
	Current smoker 11–20 p/d	0.109
	Current smoker 21+ p/d	0.026
BMI	Under 18.5	0.005
	18.5 and below 25	0.294
	25 and below 30	0.415
	30 and below 40	0.249
	40 and above	0.038
Employment status	Employed	0.539
	Unemployed	0.034
	Retired	0.331
	Maternity/caring	0.061
	Student/other	0.008
	Long-term sick/disabled	0.028
Region	North East	0.054
	North West	0.116
	Yorkshire & Humber	0.123
	East Midlands	0.097
	West Midlands	0.090
	East of England	0.096
	London	0.075
	South East	0.117
	South West	0.111
	Wales	0.055
	Scotland	0.062
Highest qualification	Degree	0.166
	Other higher degree	0.100
	A-level, etc	0.198
	GCSE, etc	0.251
	Other qualification	0.130
	No qualification	0.154
Born in the UK	Yes	0.967
	No	0.033
Subjective financial situation	Living comfortably	0.275
	Doing alright	0.358
	Just about getting by	0.287
	Finding it quite difficult	0.058
	Finding it very difficult	0.021
Age-standardised income quartile	Lowest	0.269
	2	0.241
	3	0.240
	Highest	0.251
Age	Mean age of 55.4 years, Min. 28

Values may not sum to 1 due to rounding.

BMI, body mass index; GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education.