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. 2021 Jul 2;19(4):837–848. doi: 10.1007/s10433-021-00636-4

Table 2.

Linear probability models of health behaviours

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
No walks No shopping No meeting with Distance to others Wearing mask More hand
Family Others Washing Sanitising
Linear trend for 8 weeks  − 0.009 0.019*  − 0.063**  − 0.065**  − 0.056** 0.045**  − 0.007 0.022**
[0.009] [0.009] [0.010] [0.010] [0.010] [0.009] [0.007] [0.008]
Drugs taken regularly for
 High blood cholesterol  − 0.003  − 0.010* 0.007 0.013** 0.019** 0.015** 0.019** 0.022**
[0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.003] [0.004]
 High blood pressure 0.011** 0.015** 0.019** 0.010* 0.010* 0.019** 0.015** 0.022**
[0.004] [0.004] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.004] [0.003] [0.004]
 Heart disease 0.053** 0.076** 0.044** 0.038** 0.005 0.014**  − 0.009*  − 0.005
[0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.004] [0.004]
 Diabetes 0.044** 0.046** 0.034** 0.024** 0.002 0.013*  − 0.008*  − 0.001
[0.006] [0.006] [0.006] [0.006] [0.007] [0.006] [0.004] [0.005]
 Chronic bronchitis 0.062** 0.085** 0.052** 0.032** 0.006 0.009 0.007 0.020*
[0.010] [0.010] [0.010] [0.010] [0.011] [0.010] [0.007] [0.008]
Overweight  − 0.005  − 0.017**  − 0.014**  − 0.009*  − 0.002 0.003 0.011** 0.019**
[0.004] [0.004] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.004] [0.004] [0.004]
Obese 0.031** 0.005 0.006 0.000  − 0.004 0.004 0.009* 0.008*
[0.005] [0.005] [0.006] [0.006] [0.006] [0.005] [0.004] [0.005]
Female 0.062** 0.051** 0.065** 0.071** 0.067** 0.074** 0.025** 0.032**
[0.004] [0.004] [0.005] [0.004] [0.004] [0.004] [0.003] [0.004]
Age 64–70 0.005 0.025** 0.032** 0.021** 0.011*  − 0.002 0.003  − 0.017**
[0.006] [0.005] [0.007] [0.007] [0.006] [0.006] [0.004] [0.005]
Age 71–76 0.040** 0.088** 0.099** 0.070** 0.012 0.007  − 0.003  − 0.039**
[0.007] [0.006] [0.008] [0.007] [0.007] [0.006] [0.005] [0.006]
Age 77– 0.175** 0.276** 0.186** 0.140**  − 0.000  − 0.008  − 0.043**  − 0.116**
[0.007] [0.007] [0.008] [0.008] [0.008] [0.007] [0.005] [0.006]
Secondary education  − 0.066**  − 0.079**  − 0.036**  − 0.020** 0.034** 0.025** 0.025** 0.050**
[0.006] [0.006] [0.007] [0.006] [0.007] [0.007] [0.005] [0.006]
Tertiary education  − 0.124**  − 0.111**  − 0.076**  − 0.046** 0.041** 0.029** 0.044** 0.070**
[0.007] [0.007] [0.008] [0.007] [0.008] [0.007] [0.005] [0.006]
Employed  − 0.053**  − 0.067**  − 0.075**  − 0.134**  − 0.026**  − 0.007 0.017** 0.042**
[0.005] [0.005] [0.007] [0.007] [0.006] [0.005] [0.004] [0.005]
Lives alone 0.006  − 0.007  − 0.025**  − 0.017**  − 0.014**  − 0.019**  − 0.032**  − 0.039**
[0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.005] [0.004] [0.005]
Constant 0.030 0.062 0.225** 0.567** 0.839** 0.699** 0.893** 0.714**
[0.027] [0.034] [0.038] [0.039] [0.030] [0.033] [0.023] [0.035]
Country effects Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Observations 46,040 46,040 46,040 46,040 37,471 37,471 46,040 46,040

Robust standard errors in brackets, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05. Linear trend starts on 8 June and corresponds to 8 weeks. Data: SHARE Wave 7 Release 7.1.1 and Wave 8 Release 0.0.1 beta