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Table 2 Characteristics of the 2,344 participants included in the analyses

From: Pre-pandemic socio-economic status and changes in employment during the first lockdown (2020) on the health of middle-aged people in England: a longitudinal study

 

N (%)

Collected at previous follow-ups

 

Fair/poor SRH (2019)

330 (14.1)

Managing financially (2019)

 

 Comfortably

1,270 (54.2)

 Doing alright

772 (33.0)

 Just about getting by

252 (10.8)

 Finding it difficult

31 (1.3)

 Finding it very difficult

16 (0.7)

Educational qualification (baseline)

 

 No qualification/school only

581 (24.8)

 Vocational training certificate

570 (24.3)

 University degree/higher

1,193 (50.9)

Social class (2017-18)

 

 Managers, directors and senior officials

142 (12.0)

 Professional occupations

305 (25.9)

 Associate professional and technical occupations

173 (14.7)

 Admin and secretarial occupations

213 (18.1)

 Skilled trades occupations

96 (8.1)

 Caring, leisure and other service occupations

87 (7.4)

 Sales and customer service occupations

51 (4.3)

 Process, plant and machine operatives

65 (5.5)

 Elementary occupations

48 (4.1)

Housing tenure (baseline)

 

 Owned outright

1,433 (62.1)

 Owned with a mortgage

744 (32.2)

 Rented

125 (5.4)

 Rented free

7 (0.3)

Collected within the COVID-19 survey

 

Sex, men

1,042 (44.5)

Age, years mean (SD)

65.7 (4.3)

Changes in employment during the first lockdown

 

 Already retired pre-lockdown

1,230 (52.5)

 Working in the same place

446 (19.0)

 Working from home

432 (18.4)

 Not working – furloughed

105 (4.5)

 Not working – other reasons

131 (5.6)

  1. *Missing values: 4 for managing financially; 35 for housing tenure; social class only available for participants in work at FU5; 9 for SRH