Table 3

Associations between time spent in TV and other screen-based entertainment and aggregate socioeconomic position score

Model 1*Model 2*Model 3*
Coefficient† (95% CI)Coefficient† (95% CI)Coefficient† (95% CI)
Socioeconomic position score
0 (lowest position)‡ (mean, 95% CI)264 (253 to 276)238 (227 to 250)234 (223 to 246)
1−9.4 (−23.6 to 4.7)−4.6 (−18.4 to 9.2)−0.2 (−13.9 to 13.4)
2−34.0 (−48.0 to −19.9)−20.5 (−34.3 to −6.7)−14.9 (−28.6 to −1.2)
3−49.7 (−64.0 to −35.5)−28.1 (−42.2 to −14.0)−21.6 (−35.7 to −7.6)
4−66.0 (−80.5 to −51.4)−34.5 (−49.0 to −20.0)−30.1 (−44.5 to −15.7)
5−76.2 (−91.4 to −61.0)−41.6 (−56.8 to −26.3)−35.5 (−50.6 to −20.3)
6−94.3 (−109.9 to −78.7)−53.3 (−69.0 to −37.7)−50.6 (−66.2 to −35.1)
7−97.8 (−113.9 to −81.6)−56.2 (−72.5 to −40.0)−53.7 (−69.8 to −37.6)
8−103.3 (−120.8 to −85.8)−59.6 (−77.1 to −42.0)−58.7 (−76.0 to −41.3)
9 (highest position)−112.1 (−128.2 to −95.9)−64.8 (−81.1 to −48.4)−64.4 (−80.6 to −48.1)
Trend p<0.001<0.001<0.001
R2 Change0.0680.0180.020
  • *Model 1: adjusted for age and sex; model 2: further adjustments for self-reported general health, doctor-diagnosed diabetes and CVD, smoking, alcohol drinking, limited activity due to poor health, car ownership and household cluster; model 3: further adjustments for occupational and non-occupational physical activity.

  • †Coefficients indicate mean screen entertainment time differences between the reference category and each category of the socioeconomic position score, eg a negative value of −45.5 indicates that a specific category had a mean time that is 45.5 minutes lower than the referent group

  • ‡Referent group. The values correspond to minutes/day of TVSE