Table 1.

Description of the five clusters resulting from the cluster analysis^a

	Cluster 1, n = 5,436, 26.9%	Cluster 2, n = 6,440, 31.9%	Cluster 3, n = 3,105, 15.4%	Cluster 4, n = 2,273, 11.3%	Cluster 5, n = 2,958, 14.6%	Total, n = 20,212, 100%
Age (in years)
65–69	39.9	73.2	0.5	0.0	20.1	37.1
70–74	54.5	23.8	0.0	0.0	18.9	25.0
75–79	0.60	0.3	99.6	0.0	8.6	16.8
80–84	0.8	0.4	0.0	100.0	3.2	12.1
85+	4.1	2.4	0.0	0.0	49.2	9.1
Housing form
Own home	55.8	42.6	36.6	27.9	17.8	39.9
Tenant-owned accommodation	26.2	36.8	38.0	41.3	32.7	34.1
Rented accommodation	16.3	20.1	24.9	29.7	30.5	22.4
Other/Missing	1.7	0.5	0.6	1.1	19.0	3.6
Exercising
Almost never	17.3	21.1	27.5	34.8	60.2	28.4
<1 h/week	11.9	27.1	19.2	20.0	16.7	19.5
1–3 h/week	40.1	43.7	37.7	32.7	17.7	36.7
>3 h/week	28.9	7.0	13.5	9.5	3.8	13.7
Missing	1.9	1.1	2.5	2.9	1.7	1.8
Walking/cycling
<20 min/day	10.1	25.3	21.4	32.9	61.7	26.8
20–40 min/day	29.6	51.4	45.5	40.6	25.4	39.6
>40 min/day	59.8	23.0	32.3	25.7	12.4	33.1
Missing	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.5
Household chores
<1 h/day	8.2	18.3	14.1	21.6	54.8	20.7
1–2 h/day	23.6	58.5	42.2	38.0	26.1	39.6
2–3 h/day	30.9	19.0	24.6	23.3	13.0	22.7
>3 h/day	37.0	3.8	18.4	16.0	5.0	16.5
Missing	0.4	0.3	0.7	1.2	1.1	0.6
Sedentary behaviour
Most of the time	0.9	8.7	6.2	14.1	46.7	12.4
About half the time	20.1	59.5	45.8	44.0	37.2	41.8
Less than half the time	76.8	29.9	44.9	38.0	12.7	43.2
Missing	2.2	1.9	3.1	3.9	3.4	2.6
Alcohol use
Never drink	8.1	4.2	8.9	13.8	24.3	10.0
Drink but not binge drink	66.2	37.7	65.0	65.5	54.8	55.2
Binge drink at least once a year	24.3	56.9	24.1	18.0	18.1	33.0
Missing	1.3	1.2	2.0	2.7	2.8	1.8
Smoking
Never smoked	57.4	29.8	50.6	56.1	55.7	47.2
Previous/current smoker	41.4	68.9	48.1	41.7	42.7	51.4
Missing	1.2	1.4	1.3	2.2	1.6	1.4

^aThe categories marked in bold are those that contributed significantly (P < 0.05) to the formation of each class.