Housing improvement in last 2 years | |||||
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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.