Table 5.

 Economic, educational, and global adversity outcomes in adulthood according to level of externalising behaviour in adolescence (none, mild, severe). Figures are percentage of survey members with adjusted* odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals

	None	Mild	Severe	Mild v none	Severe v none
No educational qualifications	30.8	52.2	65.2	2.3 (1.9 to 2.8)‡	4.0 (2.9 to 5.5)‡
Manual social class	29.7	45.6	52.0	1.7 (1.4 to 2.1)‡	2.0 (1.5 to 2.8)‡
Unemployed at least once†	9.5	11.1	11.9	1.2 (0.8 to 1.8)	1.2 (0.7 to 2.2)
Financial difficulties†:
No problems	75.4	70.1	56.3	1.3 (1.0 to 1.7)	2.1 (1.4 to 3.2)‡
Problems reported once	17.9	22.0	31.9
Problems reported twice or more	6.8	7.8	11.8
Global life adversity:
Least adversity	26.6	16.0	13.4	1.9 (1.6 to 2.3)‡	2.9 (2.1 to 4.0)‡
2nd quarter	22.9	16.6	12.9
3rd quarter	33.5	39.2	33.6
Most adversity	17.0	28.3	40.1

*Adjusted for sex, father’s social class, cognitive ability, and depression/anxiety in adolescence.

†Reported at ages 36, 43, and 53.

‡Significant at P<0.05.