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. 2022 Jan 25;22:171. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12315-1

Table 2.

Living conditions, lifestyle factors and health among early and late respondents 16-84 years in 2020 and adjusted odds ratios (with 95% confidence intervals in parenthesis) for living conditions, lifestyle factors and health among late respondents compared to early respondents

Total Early respondent Late respondent p-value for difference between respondent groupsa Adjusted ORb (95% CI)
Living conditions (%)
 Economic difficulties 10.2 9.0 13.9 .001 1.37 (1.02-1.86)
 Social support 90.3 90.4 90.0 .790 1.07 (0.77-1.49)
 Trust in other people 79.3 80.5 75.8 .019 0.87 (0.69-1.11)
 Worried about losing one’s job (employed) 10.6 8.6 16.0 <.001 1.77 (1.19-2.64)
Lifestyle factors (%)
 Physically active 64.6 65.6 61.6 .089 0.83 (0.67-1.02)
 Sits at least 10 h/day 17.9 17.7 18.7 .576 0.97 (0.75-1.25)
 Daily smoker 7.1 6.9 7.9 .424 1.14 (0.79-1.65)
 Risk drinker 12.4 12.1 13.5 .373 1.04 (0.77-1.39)
Health (%)
 Good self-rated health 68.3 67.3 71.6 .057 1.18 (0.95-1.47)
 Pain in shoulders or neck 52.2 52.0 52.7 .787 1.11 (0.91-1.35)
 High blood pressure 33.3 34.4 30.1 .058 1.03 (0.81-1.30)
 Sleeping difficulties 43.6 45.5 37.7 .001 0.75 (0.61-0.92)
 Anxiety or worry 36.0 35.9 36.3 .870 0.95 (0.77-1.17)
 Stress 51.1 49.4 56.4 .004 1.16 (0.94-1.42)

a p-values are from chi-squared tests

b Odds ratios adjusted for gender, age group, educational level, and country of birth. Outcome measures are living conditions, lifestyle factors, and health. Early/late response is the independent variable (reference category = early response). Statistically significant odds ratios marked with bold