Table 1.

Characteristics of the GAZEL participants and socioeconomic characteristics of their residential municipality according to the urbanicity degree of municipality, GAZEL cohort, 1990–2000, men and women

	High urbanicity degree (n = 10303)	Intermediate or low urbanicity degree (n = 9505)	Full sample (n = 19808)	p
Individual characteristics
Age (in years) *	44.7	44.8	44.7	0.15
Women §	33.5%	20.5%	27.3%	<0.0001
Low educational level §	67.2%	78.1%	72.4%	<0.0001
High white-collar workers §	27.9%	17.3%	22.8%	<0.0001
Median monthly household income (in euros)	985€	812€	902€	<0.0001
Municipality characteristics
Percentage of CEOs in the municipality ‡	0.7%	0.6%	0.7%	<0.001
Percentage with a university degree in the municipality ‡	19.6%	11.1%	15.5%	<0.001

^*Student test;

^§Khi-square test;

^‡Wilcoxon test (the test was performed at the individual level with the municipality variable attributed to each individual)