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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Aging Clin Exp Res. 2009 Apr;21(2):174–181. doi: 10.1007/bf03325226

Table 2.

Association between summary functional performance measure at 53 years and marital/parental status, adult social class, educational attainment and BMI.

MEN (N=1353)
Unadjusted
Fully adjusted
Coeff. 95% CI P-value Coeff. 95% CI P-value

Marital/parental status:
Ever married/partnered with children (1121) Ref <0.001 Ref 0.001
Ever married/partnered without children (151) −0.09 (−0.16, −0.02) −0.09 (−0.16, −0.03)
Never married/partnered with/without children (81) −0.36 (−0.45, −0.27) −0.18 (−0.27, −0.09)
Social class & employment status at 53 yrs:
Employed (Non-manual) (685) Ref <0.001 Ref <0.001
Employed (Manual) (412) −0.09 (−0.13, −0.04) −0.03 (−0.08, 0.02)
Unemployed (44) −0.08 (−0.20, 0.04) −0.01 (−0.13, 0.10)
Economically inactive (e.g retired, h/wife) (78) −0.11 (−0.20, −0.02) −0.05 (−0.14, 0.04)
Long term sick (86) −0.70 (−0.79, −0.62) −0.57 (−0.66, −0.48)
Missing (48) −0.04 (−0.15, 0.07) −0.04 (−0.15, 0.07)
Highest educational attainment by age 26 yrs:
None (459) Ref <0.001 Ref 0.002
Some qualifications (630) 0.12 (0.07, 0.17) 0.07 (0.02, 0.11)
Degree + (193) 0.21 (0.14, 0.28) 0.12 (0.05, 0.20)
Missing (71) 0.13 (0.02, 0.23) 0.12 (0.02, 0.21)
BMI at 53 years per 10 units (1353) −0.07 (−0.12, −0.01) 0.015 −0.06 (−0.11, −0.01) 0.019

WOMEN (N=1411)

Marital/parental status:
Ever married/partnered with children (1233) Ref 0.234 Ref 0.083
Ever married/partnered without children (118) −0.06 (−0.13, 0.01) −0.07 (−0.13, −0.01)
Never married/partnered with/without children (60) −0.01 (−0.11, 0.09) 0.03 (−0.06, 0.12)
Social class & employment status at 53 yrs:
Employed (Non-manual) (773) Ref <0.001 Ref <0.001
Employed (Manual) (259) −0.08 (−0.12, −0.03) −0.04 (−0.08, 0.01)
Unemployed (28) −0.05 (−0.18, 0.08) −0.03 (−0.16, 0.10)
Economically inactive (e.g retired, h/wife) (221) −0.10 (−0.15, −0.05) −0.08 (−0.12, −0.03)
Long term sick (100) −0.63 (−0.70, −0.56) −0.54 (−0.61, −0.47)
Missing (30) 0.09 (−0.03, 0.21) 0.10 (−0.01, 0.22)
Highest educational attainment by age 26 yrs:
None (488) Ref <0.001 Ref <0.001
Some qualifications (773) 0.15 (0.11, 0.19) 0.08 (0.05, 0.12)
Degree + (71) 0.27 (0.18, 0.36) 0.18 (0.10, 0.26)
Missing (79) 0.12 (0.04, 0.21) 0.07 (−0.01, 0.15)
BMI at 53 years per 10 units (1411) −0.17 (−0.21, −0.14) <0.001 −0.12 (−0.15, −0.09) <0.001