Table 3.
Descriptive statistics for individual-level variables used in final analysis
| Outcome Good/very good health |
Yes (n = 1,823, 38.54%) |
No (n = 2,907, 61.46%) |
Total (n = 4,730) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (Mean (S.D.), years) | 30.09 (14.36) | 52.38 (12.31) | 47.26 (14.64) |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 1,031 (56.56%) | 1,355 (46.61%) | 2,386 (50.44%) |
| a Female | 792 (43.44%) | 1,552 (53.39%) | 2,344 (49.56%) |
| Social class | |||
| High | 855 (46.90%) | 978 (33.64%) | 1,833 (38.75%) |
| a Low | 968 (53.10%) | 1,929 (66.36%) | 2,897 (61.25%) |
| Employment status | |||
| Employed | 1,387 (76.08%) | 2,324 (79.94%) | 3,711 (78.46%) |
| a Not employed | 436 (23.92%) | 583 (20.06%) | 1,019 (21.54%) |
| Educational attainment | |||
| a High school or below | 386 (21.17%) | 825 (28.38%) | 1,211 (25.60%) |
| College or university equivalent degree | 1,000 (54.85%) | 1,683 (57.89%) | 2,683 (56.72%) |
| Graduate school | 437 (23.97%) | 399 (13.73%) | 836 (17.67%) |
| Marital status | |||
| a Single | 883 (48.44%) | 361 (12.42%) | 1,244 (26.30%) |
| Married | 886 (48.60%) | 2,230 (76.71%) | 3,116 (65.88%) |
| Widowed/divorced/separated | 54 (2.96%) | 316 (10.87%) | 370 (7.82%) |
| Smoking | |||
| Yes | 545 (29.90%) | 591 (20.33%) | 1,136 (24.02%) |
| aNo | 1,278 (70.10%) | 2,316 (79.67%) | 3,594 (75.98%) |
| Drinking | |||
| Heavy | 85 (4.66%) | 261 (8.98%) | 346 (7.32%) |
| Sometimes | 1,274 (69.88%) | 1,026 (35.29%) | 2,300 (48.63%) |
| aNo | 464 (25.45%) | 1,620 (55.73%) | 2,084 (44.06%) |
| Network resources (Mean, (S.D.), factor score) |
0.10 (0.85) | -0.64 (1.00) | 0 (0.94) |
| Organizational participation | |||
| High | 977 (53.59%) | 1,252 (43.07%) | 2,229 (47.12%) |
| Lowa | 846 (46.41%) | 1,655 (56.93%) | 2,501 (52.88%) |
a Reference categories used for multilevel analyses.