Table 2.
Characteristics of the study sample
| Characteristic | Category | N | Weighted % |
| Total participants | 35 475 | ||
| Sex | Female | 18 766 | 51.5 |
| Age (years) | Mean (SD) | 47.6 (18.9) | |
| Education | ISCED I, less than lower secondary | 3811 | 12.7 |
| ISCED II, lower secondary | 6338 | 21.1 | |
| ISCED IIIb, lower tier upper secondary | 6111 | 20.6 | |
| ISCED IIIa, upper tier upper secondary | 5959 | 13.2 | |
| ISCED IV, advanced vocational, subdegree | 4944 | 12.5 | |
| ISCED V1, lower tertiary education, BA-level | 3852 | 8.3 | |
| ISCED V2, higher tertiary education, ≥MA-level | 4238 | 11.7 | |
| Occupation | Unemployed or homemaker | 648 | 2.3 |
| Elementary occupations | 3332 | 10.8 | |
| Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 2491 | 7.5 | |
| Craft and related trade workers | 3739 | 11.2 | |
| Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 1044 | 3.4 | |
| Services and sales workers | 5546 | 16.9 | |
| Clerical support workers | 2829 | 9.6 | |
| Technicians and associate professionals | 4792 | 15.7 | |
| Professionals | 6036 | 15.8 | |
| Higher administrator occupations | 2503 | 6.9 | |
| Financial strain | Very difficult on present income | 1642 | 3.7 |
| Difficult on present income | 5448 | 14.9 | |
| Coping on present income | 16 246 | 47.8 | |
| Living comfortably on present income | 11 862 | 33.6 | |
| Childhood adversity | Strain (−), conflict (−) | 26 879 | 77.4 |
| Strain (+), conflict (−) | 3921 | 10.5 | |
| Strain (−), conflict (+) | 2115 | 6.7 | |
| Strain (+), conflict (+) | 1751 | 5.3 | |
| One or more hampering physical health problems | Present | 15 701 | 46.9 |
| Cancer | Present | 1636 | 3.6 |
| Obesity | Present | 5278 | 15.8 |
| Self-rated health—rated bad or very bad | Present | 2739 | 8.1 |
| Unable to get needed medical consultation | Present | 4244 | 14.6 |
| Current smoker | Present | 8404 | 25.4 |
| Binge drinking—daily/weekly/monthly | Present | 9744 | 26.7 |
| No sport or physical activity within past 7 days | Present | 8401 | 25.5 |
| Fruit and vegetable consumed never/less than weekly | Present | 519 | 1.5 |
| Sedentary behaviour, ie, >3 hours of TV per day | Present | 6414 | 17.7 |
| Depression | Present | 6469 | 18.5 |
| Dissatisfied with life—lowest three life satisfaction categories (0–2 out of 10) | Present | 1494 | 4.4 |
| Unhappy—lowest three happiness categories (0–2 out of 10) | Present | 739 | 1.8 |
| Lonely—most/all of the time within past week | Present | 2358 | 6.8 |
| Feeling unsafe in local area—unsafe/very unsafe | Present | 6834 | 20.1 |
| Lack of social interaction—interacting never/less than monthly | Present | 3563 | 8.3 |
| Social isolation—no close ties | Present | 1601 | 3.8 |
| Social distrust—three lowest social trust categories (0–2 out of 10) | Present | 1829 | 5.8 |
| Respondent ever divorced* | Present | 5701 | 20.3 |
Sampling weights were used for the calculation of proportions and means (SD).
*The sample was restricted to respondents who was not in the category ‘never been married or in a legally registered civil union’ (ie, sample restricted to n=24 796).