Table 2 Characteristics of the study population
From: The association between social position and self-rated health in 10 deprived neighbourhoods
|  | Males (n = 2,109) | Females (n = 2,462) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age (mean, SD) | 48.8 | (17.2) | 49.8 | (17.9) | |
Ethnicity (n,%) | Native Danes | 1,718 | (81.5) | 2,081 | (84.6) |
Other Western background | 38 | (1.8) | 59 | (2.4) | |
Non-Western background | 351 | (16.7) | 320 | (13.0) | |
Life resources (n,%) | 0-1 | 342 | (18.4) | 351 | (17.0) |
2 | 333 | (21.3) | 395 | (19.2) | |
3 | 381 | (21.8) | 453 | (22.0) | |
4 | 372 | (19.0) | 418 | (20.3) | |
5-6 | 321 | (19.6) | 445 | (21.6) | |
Type of neighbourhood (n,%) | Urban | 1,572 | (74.5) | 1,868 | (75.9) |
Rural | 537 | (25.5) | 594 | (24.1) | |
Self-rated health (n,%)) | Very good | 471 | (22.4) | 532 | (21.7) |
Good | 895 | (42.6) | 1,039 | (42.3) | |
Neither good nor bad | 403 | (19.2) | 451 | (18.4) | |
Bad | 248 | (11.8) | 349 | (14.2) | |
Very bad | 86 | (4.1) | 84 | (3.4) | |