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Table 1 Characteristics of participants in analysis and by SEP

From: The importance of age, sex and place in understanding socioeconomic inequalities in allostatic load: Evidence from the Scottish Health Survey (2008–2011)

Covariate

Total

Low SEP

High SEP

Total

1834 (100 %)

716 (39.0 %)

1118 (61.0 %)

SEX

   

Male

812 (44.3 %)

311 (43.4 %)

501 (44.8 %)

Female

1022 (55.7 %)

405 (56.6 %)

617 (55.2 %)

AGE

   

18-24

109 (5.9 %)

37 (5.2 %)

72 (6.4 %)

25-34

265 (14.4 %)

40 (5.6 %)

225 (20.1 %)

35-44

398 (21.7 %)

123 (17.2 %)

275 (24.6 %)

45-54

391 (21.3 %)

157 (21.9 %)

234 (20.9 %)

55-64

363 (19.8 %)

163 (22.8 %)

200 (17.9 %)

65-74

197 (10.7 %)

124 (17.3 %)

73 (6.5 %)

75+

111 (6.1 %)

72 (10.1 %)

39 (3.5 %)

Urban/Rural

   

Primary City (pop > 125,000)

626 (34.1 %)

216 (30.2 %)

410 (36.7 %)

Urban (pop > 10,000)

530 (28.9 %)

222 (31.0 %)

308 (27.5 %)

Small Accessible town (pop > 3,000)

165 (9.0 %)

75 (10.5 %)

90 (8.1 %)

Small Remote town (pop > 3,000)

74 (4.0 %)

36 (5.0 %)

38 (3.4 %)

Accessible Rural

299 (16.3 %)

103 (14.4 %)

196 (17.5 %)

Remote Rural

140 (7.6 %)

64 (8.9 %)

76 (6.8 %)

Location

   

Ayrshire & Arran

115 (6.3 %)

51 (7.1 %)

65 (5.8 %)

Borders, Dumfries & Galloway

114 (6.2 %)

47 (6.6 %)

68 (5.9 %)

Fife

167 (9.1 %)

49 (6.8 %)

124 (10.7 %)

Forth Valley

104 (5.7 %)

42 (5.9 %)

65 (5.6 %)

Grampian

232 (12.6 %)

102 (14.2 %)

137 (11.8 %)

Greater Glasgow & Clyde

299 (16.3 %)

125 (17.5 %)

180 (15.5 %)

Highland & Islands

141 (7.7 %)

59 (8.2 %)

83 (7.2 %)

Lanarkshire

166 (9.1 %)

72 (10.1 %)

95 (8.3 %)

Lothian

312 (17.0 %)

100 (14.0 %)

220 (19.0 %)

Tayside

184 (10.0 %)

69 (9.6 %)

117 (10.1 %)