Table 1 Description of individual’s socio-demographic and lifestyle factors for each wave of the Understanding Society data (N = 404,264 observations from 67,982 individuals)
Wave1 (2009–2011) | Wave2 (2010–2012) | Wave3 (2011–2013) | Wave4 (2012–2014) | Wave5 (2013–2015) | Wave6 (2014–2016) | Wave7 (2015–2017) | Wave8 (2016–2018) | Wave9 (2017–2019) | Wave10 (2018–2019) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 39,798 | N = 50,728 | N = 47,651 | N = 45,236 | N = 42,525 | N = 39,777 | N = 38,518 | N = 36,264 | N = 33,141 | N = 30,626 | ||
Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | ||
Gender | Male | 45 | 45 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 45 | 45 |
Female | 56 | 55 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 55 | 55 | 55 | |
Age | Young (< 34) | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 21 |
Middle age (34–58) | 46 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 43 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 43 | 43 | |
Old (> 58) | 27 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 33 | 34 | 35 | |
Ethnicity | British-white | 76 | 77 | 78 | 78 | 78 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 77 | 78 |
Other-white | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
Indian | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
Pakistani/Bangladeshi | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
Black/African/Caribbean | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |
Mixed ethnicities | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Other ethnicities | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | |
Country of birth | Born in the UK | 83 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 68 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 68 | 69 |
Not born in the UK | 17 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | |
Missing information | 0 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | |
Marital status | Married | 53 | 53 | 53 | 52 | 52 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 54 | 55 |
Living as a couple | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
Widowed | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |
Divorced/separated | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |
Single never married | 21 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 21 | |
Missing information | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Education | University degree | 30 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 34 |
High school degree | 32 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | |
Lower educational levels | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Other qualifications | 30 | 40 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 36 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 | |
Still a student | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | |
Occupation | Managers/Professionals/employers | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
Non-manual workers | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | |
Manual workers | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 17 | |
Not applicable: Student/ retired/Not working | 44 | 44 | 44 | 43 | 43 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 43 | |
Missing information | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Housing tenure | Owned outright | 29 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
Owned with mortgage | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | |
Local authority rent | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | |
Housing association rent | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | |
Private rent | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 10 | |
Other or missing information | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
Perceived financial situation | living comfortably/doing alright | 56 | 57 | 57 | 59 | 60 | 65 | 67 | 70 | 69 | 70 |
living difficultly | 40 | 37 | 36 | 33 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 28 | |
Missing information | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
Smoking status | non-smoker | 70 | 74 | 69 | 68 | 75 | 71 | 79 | 82 | 84 | 85 |
smoker | 19 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | |
Missing information | 11 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
Nation | England | 84 | 77 | 76 | 77 | 77 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 78 | 79 |
Wales | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | |
Scotland | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | |
Northern Ireland | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | |