Table 2.

Association between measures of socio-economic position and depression symptoms (PHQ depression score) and cognitive function, reporting regression β-coefficients and standard errors from a series of regression models controlling for age and sex

	Depression symptoms	Cognitive functioning
	Coefficient (and standard error)	Coefficient (and standard error)
Experience of financial hardship	3.60 (0.86)***	−3.31 (1.47)*
Grew-up in poverty	1.49 (0.56)**	1.78 (0.95)
Labour-force status (employed)
Unemployed	−0.66 (1.42)	−0.93 (2.38)
Not participating in the labour force	1.64 (0.74)*	−3.00 (1.24)**
Low-skilled occupational background	1.99 (0.86)*	−2.25 (1.44)

***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01; *P < 0.05.