Table 3.

Odds of having good or very good health in 2011 by degree attained by 1991: cohort born before 1976

	Men, n=13 390			Women, n=8143
Subject	OR	p value	CI		OR	p value	CI
D (humanities)	1.00				1.00
A (life sciences)*	1.16	0.163	0.94 to 1.44		0.95	0.663	0.77 to 1.18
B (physical sciences)	1.24	0.006	1.06 to 1.44		0.82	0.086	0.66 to 1.03
C (social sciences)	1.07	0.371	0.92 to 1.25		0.89	0.140	0.76 to 1.04
Clinical medicine	1.45	0.011	1.09 to 1.92		1.10	0.605	0.76 to 1.60
Missing degree subject	1.06	0.889	0.46 to 2.48		0.86	0.773	0.32 to 2.32

Adjusted for age, age-squared and socioeconomic status (NS-SEC); constant not shown.

Data source: ONS LS; analysis: authors’ own.

Subjects grouped into 2021 REF panel classes (A–C) compared with humanities (D).

*excluding clinical medicine.

NS-SEC, National Statistics Socio-economic Classification; REF, Research Excellence Framework.