The validity of the SF-36 in an Australian National Household Survey: demonstrating the applicability of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examination of health inequalities

Butterworth, Peter; Crosier, Timothy

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-4-44

Table 5 Mean SF-36 Scale and Component Summary Scores, by measures of demographic and socio-economic circumstances. The F statistic associated with each comparison is indicated, together with minimum number of respondents in each cell (in brackets).

From: The validity of the SF-36 in an Australian National Household Survey: demonstrating the applicability of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examination of health inequalities

	PCS	MCS	PF	RP	BP	GH	VT	SF	RE	MH
Gender
Male (5817)	49.49	50.45	83.84	80.23	74.96	69.51	62.63	82.21	83.46	74.61
Female (6503)	48.97	49.15	81.18	77.90	72.84	69.57	58.85	80.09	80.22	72.25
F(1,475)	8.19	53.82	44.89	14.56	24.03	0.03	121.39	27.94	30.55	62.19
	**	***	***	***	***	ns	***	***	***	***
Age
18–25 (2135)	53.23	48.26	91.75	88.48	80.26	73.38	62.53	82.65	83.09	71.64
26–39 (3535)	52.16	48.88	89.17	86.40	78.71	73.85	60.97	82.50	83.91	72.80
40–55 (3676)	49.56	49.99	84.28	80.82	73.70	69.49	60.86	81.71	83.35	73.74
56–65 (1452)	44.47	51.51	72.87	69.27	66.23	63.72	60.87	79.87	80.42	74.44
66–75 (992)	41.70	52.92	65.10	61.29	64.59	62.26	59.47	79.61	78.90	76.14
75+ (530)	35.85	51.31	49.49	39.71	57.64	55.57	53.21	70.22	62.76	75.01
F(5,451)	324.72	29.94	302.04	210.84	96.79	85.05	15.69	17.57	25.92	8.15
	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
Marital status
Married/de facto (7928)	48.85	50.73	82.36	79.15	73.68	69.62	61.08	82.97	83.74	74.93
Divorced/separated (1013)	47.01	47.50	77.23	71.74	67.25	65.87	57.02	72.82	73.94	69.29
F(1.475)	18.74	59.43	29.33	28.06	31.20	19.39	25.41	94.83	52.03	60.11
	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
Educational attainment
Yr 12 or above (7975)	50.29	49.92	85.59	81.92	75.86	71.22	61.46	82.40	83.43	74.17
Yr 11 or less (4041)	47.15	49.56	76.64	73.48	70.22	66.32	59.31	78.82	78.74	72.00
F(1.475)	159.19	2.48	235.31	112.92	95.55	102.68	24.48	42.39	40.34	28.45
	***	ns	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
Employment status
Employed (7741)	51.77	50.25	89.04	87.14	78.54	73.40	62.57	85.13	86.53	74.87
Unemployed (520)	51.22	47.08	85.07	82.37	76.28	70.67	62.85	77.57	76.39	68.72
F(1.471)	1.58	36.90	17.16	10.00	3.69	6.47	0.10	46.04	36.74	44.94
	ns	***	***	**	ns	*	ns	***	***	***
Housing status
Own/mortgage (9281)	49.12	50.43	82.58	78.86	74.20	69.99	61.16	82.54	83.10	74.48
Rent (3039)	49.53	47.97	82.24	79.63	73.01	68.26	59.46	77.15	78.18	70.38
F(1.475)	1.77	92.54	0.20	0.75	2.79	6.35	11.43	72.65	36.32	81.86
	ns	***	ns	ns	ns	*	***	***	***	***
Receipt of welfare payments (working age respondents)
Non-recipients (8373)	51.75	50.16	88.93	86.86	78.45	73.25	62.73	84.87	86.09	74.66
Welfare recipients (2091)	46.57	46.16	76.22	68.35	66.22	62.71	55.48	70.35	71.10	66.50
F(1,473)	259.15	174.85	305.32	300.00	223.36	274.19	147.06	431.71	241.05	221.56
	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***

Degrees of freedom for F statistics based on number of clusters (primary sampling units) and number of strata
* p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001

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