Table 1

Sociodemographic variables, health and smoking status for those who had an improvement between 2006 and 2008 with those who did not

	Housing improvement in last 2 years
	No		Yes
	n=517	%	n=545	%	p Value
Gender
Male	186	36.0	219	40.2	0.158
Female	331	64.0	326	59.8
Age
16–24	23	4.45	19	3.5	0.181
25–39	148	28.6	137	25.1
40–54	128	24.8	142	26.1
55–64	81	15.7	75	14.7
65+	136	26.3	166	30.5
Education
No qualifications	433	83.75	464	85.14	0.533
GCSE A–C or above	84	16.25	81	14.86
Economically active
Yes	184	51.98	185	52.26	0.940
No	170	48.02	169	47.74
Citizenship
British	438	84.72	442	81.1	0.118
Non-British	79	15.28	103	18.9
House type
MSF	252	58.93	350	64.34	<0.001
Other flat	186	36.12	143	26.29
House	77	14.95	51	9.38
Tenure
Owned	106	20.5	65	11.93	<0.001
Rented	411	79.5	480	88.07
Health
Longstanding illness (2006)	146	28.2	153	28.1	0.952
Mental health
SF-12_MH (2006)	47.41	10.03	48.29	9.83	0.149
SF-12_MH (2008)	46.87	9.65	49.21	9.68	<0.001
Visited doctor in last 12 months for anxiety/depression
2006	113	21.9	101	18.5	0.377
2008	114	22.3	114	20.9	0.859
Experienced mental health problems regularly in previous 12 months (2008)
No	449	86.9	461	84.6	0.578
Yes, but improved	8	1.6	10	1.8
Yes, problems the same	30	5.8	43	7.9
Yes, problems worse	30	5.8	31	5.7
Smoking and intention to quit
Current smoker (2006)	250	48.4	208	38.2	<0.001
Current smoker (2008)	253	48.9	218	40.0	0.003
Intention to quit (2006)	146	58.4	114	54.8	0.440
Intention to quit (2008)	90	35.6	114	52.3	<0.001

GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; MH, Mental health; MSF, multi-storey flats.