Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for the main analytic sample of the UKHLS.
| Variable | N | % | Variable | N | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Institutional | ||||
| COVID19 Vaccine Hesitancy | Education | ||||
| Not Hesitant | 6624 | 85.4 | Degree | 3775 | 48.7 |
| Hesitant | 1135 | 14.6 | A level | 841 | 10.8 |
| GCSE | 1993 | 25.7 | |||
| Main exposures | None | 1150 | 14.8 | ||
| Ethnicity | Subjective financial situation | ||||
| Black | 168 | 2.2 | Comfortably | 2527 | 32.6 |
| Indian | 219 | 2.8 | Doing alright | 3688 | 47.5 |
| Mixed | 125 | 1.6 | Just about getting by | 1198 | 15.4 |
| Other Asian | 92 | 1.2 | Difficult or Very difficult | 346 | 4.5 |
| Other Ethnicity | 35 | 0.5 | Housing Tenure | ||
| Other White | 265 | 3.4 | Own outright | 3392 | 43.7 |
| Pakistani and Bangladeshi | 174 | 2.2 | Own with a mortgage | 3086 | 39.8 |
| White British | 6681 | 86.1 | Socially rented | 609 | 7.9 |
| Private rented | 651 | 8.4 | |||
| Core demographic variables | Other | 21 | 0.3 | ||
| Gender | Overcrowding | ||||
| Male | 3256 | 42.0 | Under-occupied | 6510 | 83.9 |
| Female | 4503 | 58.0 | Balanced | 934 | 12.0 |
| Overcrowded | 315 | 4.1 | |||
| Other demographic variables | Access to car | ||||
| Country of origin | At least once a day | 2234 | 28.8 | ||
| Born in UK | 7016 | 90.4 | less than once a day by to three times a week | 1896 | 24.4 |
| Not born in UK | 743 | 9.6 | Once or twice a week | 2338 | 30.1 |
| Partnership status | Less than that or never. | 1291 | 16.6 | ||
| Yes | 5610 | 72.3 | |||
| No | 2149 | 27.7 | Community level variables | ||
| Presence of school age children | Area Racism | ||||
| None | 5993 | 77.2 | Not at all | 5146 | 66.3 |
| One or more | 1766 | 22.8 | Not very | 2401 | 30.9 |
| Household contains person over 70 | Fairly or very common | 212 | 2.7 | ||
| Zero | 6446 | 83.1 | |||
| One or more | 1313 | 16.9 | Continuous measures | ||
| Mean | SD. Dev. | ||||
| Health variables | Age | 55.4 | 15.5 | ||
| Clinical vulnerability | Decile of deprivation | 6.2 | 2.7 | ||
| No Risk | 4348 | 56.0 | Neighbourhood cohesion | 18.6 | 3.2 |
| Moderate Risk | 2912 | 37.5 | Internal political efficacy | 6.1 | 1.9 |
| High risk | 499 | 6.4 | External political efficacy | 5.6 | 1.8 |
| Self-rated health | Proportion of LSOA Not white British | 0.16 | 0.20 | ||
| Excellent/Very good | 4155 | 53.6 | GHQ | 12.5 | 5.9 |
| Good | 2526 | 32.6 | Life Satisfaction | 3.0 | 1.5 |
| Fair or poor | 1078 | 13.9 | |||
| Limiting long standing illness | |||||
| No | 4978 | 64.2 | |||
| Yes | 2781 | 35.8 | |||
| Loneliness | |||||
| Hardly ever or never | 4886 | 63.0 | |||
| Some of the time | 2422 | 31.2 | |||
| Often | 451 | 5.8 | |||
| Smoking | |||||
| No | 7114 | 91.7 | |||
| Yes | 645 | 8.3 | |||