Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for Time-Varying Characteristics

Variable	Age 7		Age 16		Ages 42
Poor Health, %	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
	[5.01]	[94.99]	[14.70]	[85.30]	[15.08]	[84.92]
Childhood characteristics
Father’s social class	SM	SM	SM	SNM
Mother’s employment status, %	48.24	42.11	67.83	69.10
Number of children	1.81	1.71	1.71	1.68
Number of moves	1.07	1.06	1.56	1.59
Region, %
England	86.50	82.92	82.45	84.22
Wales	6.71	6.33	6.71	5.73
Scotland	6.79	10.75	10.84	10.05
Parental school expectations, %
Leave at minimum age	16.07	14.83	56.06	51.58
Stay past minimum age	83.93	85.17	43.94	48.42
Reading comprehension	−0.28	0.21	0.05	0.25
Math	−0.27	0.14	0.12	0.23
Adulthood characteristics
Social class					SNM	SNM
NVQ level					2.50	2.85
Employment status, %					72.84	90.70
Marital status, %					69.85	74.44
N			4,644

Note: Percent distributions of health limitation at each age are in brackets. SM is skilled manual and SNM skilled nonmanual.