Table 7
Relation of occasion specific social position measures to GHQ score for final models conditional upon a one year lag for GHQ scores of 0 and 3 (for illustration) and controlling for age and sex
| Economic status | Socioeconomic position | Previous year’s GHQ | Socioeconomic position | Previous year’s GHQ | Socioeconomic position | Previous year’s GHQ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NS-SEC | 0 | 3 | Cambridge | 0 | 3 | Income | 0 | 3 | |
| Estimates are for a person of average age in 1991 (38 years) and include a main effect for sex (between 0.36 and 0.38) and GHQ-lag of 0.19 for models that use income for social position and around 0.17 for the NS-SEC and Cambridge models. | |||||||||
| Employed | Higher managerial and professional | 0.000 | 0.513 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.511 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.565 |
| Lower managerial and professional | −0.031 | 0.479 | 2 | −0.005 | 0.455 | 2 | −0.090 | 0.440 | |
| Intermediate | −0.197 | 0.306 | 3 | −0.098 | 0.443 | 3 | −0.086 | 0.478 | |
| Small employer and self employed | −0.197 | 0.440 | 4 | −0.126 | 0.385 | 4 | −0.135 | 0.485 | |
| Lower technical and supervisory | −0.271 | 0.393 | 5 | −0.180 | 0.495 | 5 | −0.068 | 0.486 | |
| Semi-routine | −0.186 | 0.370 | 6 | −0.157 | 0.500 | 6 | 0.053 | 0.622 | |
| Routine | −0.138 | 0.448 | 7 | −0.118 | 0.447 | 7 | 0.155 | 0.560 | |
| Unemployed | Higher managerial and professional | 0.819 | 1.747 | 1 | 0.893 | 1.478 | 1 | 1.429 | 2.204 |
| Lower managerial and professional | 0.853 | 1.548 | 2 | 0.661 | 1.591 | 2 | 0.811 | 1.228 | |
| Intermediate | 0.408 | 1.075 | 3 | 0.496 | 1.630 | 3 | 1.307 | 1.971 | |
| Small employer and self employed | 0.184 | 1.362 | 4 | 0.700 | 1.185 | 4 | 0.914 | 1.663 | |
| Lower technical and supervisory | 0.647 | 1.443 | 5 | 0.621 | 1.271 | 5 | 0.429 | 1.209 | |
| Semi-routine | 0.459 | 1.503 | 6 | 0.589 | 1.345 | 6 | 0.329 | 1.309 | |
| Routine | 0.505 | 1.005 | 7 | 0.395 | 1.341 | 7 | 0.393 | 1.191 | |
| Inactive | Higher managerial and professional | 0.086 | 0.805 | 1 | −0.111 | 0.666 | 1 | 0.018 | 0.735 |
| Lower managerial and professional | −0.074 | 0.757 | 2 | 0.098 | 0.760 | 2 | 0.061 | 0.851 | |
| Intermediate | 0.015 | 0.847 | 3 | 0.032 | 0.922 | 3 | 0.157 | 0.954 | |
| Small employer and self employed | −0.014 | 1.083 | 4 | 0.071 | 0.936 | 4 | 0.125 | 1.021 | |
| Lower technical and supervisory | 0.163 | 1.055 | 5 | 0.123 | 1.040 | 5 | 0.246 | 1.162 | |
| Semi-routine | 0.239 | 1.039 | 6 | 0.332 | 1.201 | 6 | 0.140 | 1.126 | |
| Routine | 0.136 | 1.069 | 7 | 0.318 | 1.243 | 7 | 0.381 | 1.182 | |
