Table 3.

Spearman's rank correlation coefficients (95% CIs) for electoral division mean mental health score and contextual covariates^a

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Mean mental health score	1	-0.143 -0.209, -0.076	-0.183 -0.248, -0.117	-0.154 -0.220, -0.087	-0.227 -0.290, -0.162	-0.228 -0.291, -0.163
2. Townsend score		1	0.870 0.852, 0.886	0.701 0.665, 0.734	0.742 0.710, 0.771	0.705 0.669, 0.738
3. IS			1	0.708 0.672, 0.740	0.898 0.884, 0.910	0.871 0.854, 0.886
4. IBJSA				1	0.625 0.582, 0.665	0.543 0.493, 0.589
5. IB/SDA					1	0.931 0.921, 0.940
6. DLA/AA						1

a: modelled as a z-score

All correlations p < 0.01

IS: Income Support

IBJSA: Income-based Job Seekers Allowance

IB/SDA: Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance

DLA/AA: Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance