Characteristics of respondents
| Characteristic | Number | Per cent |
| Men | 3863 | 44 |
| Women | 4938 | 56 |
| Age | ||
| 18–24 | 980 | 11 |
| 25–34 | 2003 | 23 |
| 35–44 | 2129 | 24 |
| 45–54 | 2112 | 24 |
| 55–64 | 1529 | 18 |
| Social class | ||
| I | 450 | 6 |
| II | 2468 | 32 |
| IIIN | 2118 | 28 |
| IIIM | 1218 | 16 |
| IV | 1141 | 15 |
| V | 312 | 4 |
| Longstanding illness (all types) | 3701 | 42 |
| Asthma | 621 | 7 |
| Used casualty department (last 3 months) | 479 | 5 |
| Used outpatients department (last 3 months) | 1410 | 16 |
| Hospital inpatient (last year) | 998 | 11 |
| Visited GP's surgery (last year) | ||
| never | 1256 | 14 |
| once | 2018 | 23 |
| 2–3 times | 3200 | 36 |
| 4–5 times | 1148 | 13 |
| 6 or more times | 1209 | 14 |
| Damp housing (serious problem) | 109 | 1 |
| Damp housing (nuisance) | 812 | 9 |
| Cold housing (most of the time/quite often) | 686 | 8 |
| Crowded home (very crowded/slightly crowded) | 1361 | 15 |
| Desire to move away (very strong/prefer to) | 1310 | 15 |
| Speeding traffic (serious problem) | 1401 | 16 |
| Poor public transport (serious problem) | 1140 | 13 |
| Burglaries (serious problem) | 958 | 11 |
| All other environmental factors (serious problem) | ⩽7 | |
| Worry about money (a lot/all the time) | 2284 | 26 |
| Worry about pressure at work (a lot/all the time) | 1901 | 22 |
| Worry about job security (a lot/all the time) | 837 | 10 |
| SF-36 dimension | Mean score | SD |
| energy and vitality | 58 | 20 |
| general health perception | 71 | 20 |
| mental health | 72 | 18 |
| pain | 79 | 23 |
| physical functioning | 88 | 20 |
| role limitation mental | 86 | 21 |
| role limitation physical | 87 | 22 |
| social functioning | 83 | 23 |