General characteristics of the study sample (in percentages). Catalonia Health Survey, 1994
| Health outcomes | Non-manual | Manual | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men (n=1071) | Women (n=645) | p | Men (n=1077) | Women (n=540) | p | ||
| Self perceived health status | |||||||
| Excellent | 8.9 | 6.7 | 0.12 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 0.06 | |
| Very good | 14.0 | 15.3 | 11.6 | 10.9 | |||
| Good | 65.5 | 63.7 | 64.1 | 58.0 | |||
| Fair | 10.8 | 12.6 | 19.1 | 24.6 | |||
| Poor | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | |||
| Limiting longstanding illness | 6.9 | 8.6 | 0.20 | 9.5 | 11.9 | 0.14 | |
| At least one chronic condition | 51.1 | 59.4 | 0.0008 | 56.6 | 66.5 | 0.0001 | |
| GHQ score >2 | 12.1 | 15.7 | 0.03 | 12.7 | 23.6 | <0.0001 | |
| Health related behaviours | |||||||
| No leisure time physical activity | 28.3 | 26.8 | 0.51 | 34.2 | 35.3 | 0.66 | |
| Daily number of hours slept ⩽6 | 29.3 | 28.5 | 0.73 | 26.5 | 30.1 | 0.14 | |
| Family demands | |||||||
| Household size | |||||||
| Two | 13.9 | 14.8 | 0.05 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 0.10 | |
| Three | 24.7 | 30.1 | 26.4 | 31.1 | |||
| Four | 41.2 | 35.6 | 41.4 | 37.6 | |||
| > Four | 20.2 | 19.4 | 22.2 | 19.7 | |||
| Living with children under 15 | 50.1 | 60.8 | <0.0001 | 54.0 | 54.0 | 1.00 | |
| Living with persons older than 65 | 11.4 | 9.3 | 0.18 | 12.1 | 10.9 | 0.46 | |
| Age (mean and SD) | 44.1 (9.4) | 40.2 (8.9) | <0.0001 | 44.7 (9.8) | 41.6 (9.4) | <0.0001 | |