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. 2020 Jun 5;19:85. doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01202-7

Table 1.

Demographic, health and material and psychosocial characteristics by intersectional social positions in Spanish adults

Social class Gender Regional development Intersectional social positionsa
non-manual manual men women high low MNH WNH MNL WNL MMH WMH MML WML

Total

(N)

7891 14,565 11,376 11,080 11,461 10,995 2069 2503 1539 1780 6655 3234 41,113 3563
Age (mean, range) 51.97 (20–88) 55.49 (19–88) 54.53 (19–88) 53.97 (20–88) 54.62 (19–88) 53.88 (19–88)

54.12

(21–88)

50.69

(22–88)

53.98

(22–88)

49.54

(20–88)

55.03

(19–88)

57.50

(20–88)

54.51

(19–88)

55.28

(20–88)

Poor SRH (%) 17.96 34.99 27.94 30.10 26.76 31.34 17.88 16.26 20.60 18.15 30.26 36.61 33.67 39.88
Material factors (%) Material scarcity 1.80 14.42 9.27 10.72 7.72 12.35 1.79 1.60 1.88 2.02 9.90 13.79 15.24 18.69
Unstable employ- ment 6.59 16.87 9.56 17.05 9.05 17.64 2.32 7.39 4.35 12.36 8.81 14.90 15.83 28.12
Insecure residen- tial area 8.97 10.11 9.11 10.33 10.94 8.43 9.18 11.15 6.82 7.53 10.73 12.15 8.49 9.51
Psycho-social factors (%) Poor social support 2.43 5.60 4.80 4.16 3.96 5.03 2.61 1.96 2.86 2.53 5.20 4.98 6.27 5.78
Lack of social partici- pation 17.27 42.52 34.89 32.37 29.67 37.79 18.12 14.62 21.12 16.69 38.00 39.30 45.71 46.39

aThe first letter of the intersectional social position is gender (M = Men, W=Women), the second letter is the social class (M = Manual, N=Non-manual) and the third letter is the regional development (H=High, L = Low)