Exposures of Interest | Dichotomisation approach | |
---|---|---|
‘High’ economic resource | ‘Low’ economic resource | |
Social class | Professional, managerial & technical, skilled non-manual | Skilled manual, partly skilled, unskilled |
Education | Degree, A-level | O-level, no qualification |
Home-ownership | Owner-occupier | Renter-private, renter-public |
Money for needs | More than enough | Just enough, less than enough |
Frequency of insufficient money for food/clothing | Never, seldom | Sometimes, often, always |
Paying bills (level of difficulty) | None, slight, a little | Some, great, very great |
‘Present’ social relationship | ‘Absent’ social relationship | |
Marital status | Married, living as married (“married”) | Single, widowed, divorced, separated (“non-married”) |
Living arrangement | Co-living | Lone-living |
Frequency of friend contact | Daily, weekly, several times a month (“frequent”) | About once a month, less than once a month, never/hardly ever (“infrequent”) |