Profiles of subjective health among people living alone: a latent class analysis

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Distributions of the study variables

Variable	Range or category	n	Proportion / mean (SD)
Positive mental health (WEMWBS)	14–70	840	49.4 (9.7)
Perceived general health		876
	Good/rather good		58.7%
	Average/rather poor/poor		41.3%
Social provisions (SPS)	24–96	798	77.6 (12.2)
Quality of life (EUROHIS)	1–5	869	3.8 (0.7)
Gender		882
	Male		46.8%
	Female		53.2%
Age in years		884
	18–29		19.4%
	30–64		44.2%
	65-		36.4%
Marital status		872
	Single		50.9%
	Divorced		26.6%
	Widowed		18.4%
	Married/cohabiting		4.1%
In a relationship		864
	No		76.5%
	Yes		23.5%
Education		876
	Primary		21.2%
	Secondary		37.5%
	Tertiary		41.3%
Employment status		870
	Employed/studying		50%
	Unemployed		13.1%
	Retired/other		36.9%
Region (NUTS2)		884
	Helsinki-Uusimaa		26.6%
	South Finland		25.6%
	West Finland		24%
	East & North Finland		23.8%
Urbanicity		870
	City/town centre		30.3%
	City/town suburb		49.9%
	Population centre in a rural area		13.4%
	Sparsely populated rural area		6.4%

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