Table 3 Mean of independent variables

Socio-demographics

Female (female = 1, male = 0)

0.57

0.46

0.52

0.65

0.61

0.54

Age (years)

45.81

39.85

36.99

42.95

41.40

43.12

Dependent children (number)

0.65

0.88

0.76

1.02

1.16

1.14

Age left education (years)

17.99

20.72

22.32

19.26

19.06

19.02

Employed (yes = 1, no = 0)

0.72

0.87

0.70

0.65

0.61

0.47

Marital status (baseline single)

Married

0.4733

0.5337

0.4510

0.5608

0.5687

0.5069

Divorced

0.1017

0.0561

0.0482

0.0795

0.0698

0.0817

Widowed

0.0206

0.0086

0.0081

0.0211

0.0210

0.0243

Other

0.0024

0.0027

0.0031

0.0020

0.0015

0.0030

Religion (baseline no religion)

Christian

0.5400

0.6403

0.4287

0.4347

0.4022

0.4827

Buddhist

0.0024

0.0106

0.0313

0.0155

0.0172

0.0137

Hindu

0.0028

0.0660

0.0745

0.0693

0.0895

0.0543

Jewish

0.0031

0.0048

0.0055

0.0061

0.0041

0.0044

Muslim

0.0116

0.0636

0.1550

0.2040

0.2844

0.2539

Sikh

0.0030

0.0074

0.0101

0.0286

0.0198

0.0160

Any other religion

0.0187

0.0217

0.0239

0.0247

0.0261

0.0247

Ethnicity (baseline White)

Mixed/multiple ethnicities

0.0073

0.0134

0.0194

0.0182

0.0188

0.0189

Asian/Asian British

0.0186

0.1762

0.3210

0.3272

0.3282

0.1911

Black/Black British

0.0090

0.0576

0.1472

0.1103

0.1926

0.2650

Arab

0.0003

0.0080

0.0363

0.0115

0.0321

0.0454

Other ethnicity

0.0017

0.0554

0.0794

0.0485

0.0861

0.0900

Health (baseline very bad)

Bad

0.0559

0.0210

0.0162

0.0480

0.0498

0.0593

Fair

0.1656

0.0862

0.0882

0.1585

0.1616

0.1556

Good

0.3992

0.4393

0.4226

0.4228

0.4221

0.4188

Very good

0.3624

0.4483

0.4686

0.3563

0.3478

0.3475

Years since migration (baseline under 5 years)

5–9 years

0.2722

0.1880

0.1208

0.1393

0.1371

10–14 years

0.2563

0.2005

0.1280

0.2079

0.1923

15–19 years

0.1287

0.1511

0.1051

0.1299

0.2198

20 years and over

0.1541

0.2713

0.5841

0.4393

0.3705

N

770,028

37,766

18,175

39,893

7,775

10,080