Table 2 Associations of education and health behaviour with health and wellbeing, adjusted for childhood financial circumstances, age and sex

Education (ref. Primary)

21.4

16.1

6.6

 Secondary

0.017***

0.013***

0.022***

0.015***

0.009

0.003

(0.003)

(0.003)

(0.005)

(0.005)

(0.006)

(0.006)

 Tertiary low

0.028***

0.021***

0.038***

0.022***

0.010

-0.004

(0.003)

(0.003)

(0.005)

(0.005)

(0.006)

(0.006)

 Tertiary high

0.042***

0.030***

0.062***

0.037***

0.035***

0.013**

(0.003)

(0.003)

(0.004)

(0.004)

(0.006)

(0.006)

Health behaviour (HB) (ref. Unhealthy)

39.5

70.3

54.9

 Semi-unhealthy

0.025***

0.046***

0.057***

(0.003)

(0.004)

(0.005)

 Semi-healthy

0.041***

0.088***

0.077***

(0.003)

(0.004)

(0.006)

 Super-healthy

0.047***

0.111***

0.089***

(0.003)

(0.004)

(0.006)

Childhood financial circumstances (CFC) (ref. Good)

20.4

12.7

34.3

 Difficult

-0.028***

-0.027***

-0.038***

-0.035***

-0.060***

-0.057***

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.003)

(0.003)

(0.004)

(0.004)

Sex

 Male

0.023***

0.025***

18.5

0.004*

0.010***

0.4

0.002

0.005

0.2

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.003)

(0.003)

(0.004)

(0.004)

Age

0.0002

0.0002

0.2

0.001***

0.001***

0.6

0.001***

0.001***

4.0

(0.0001)

(0.0001)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

Constant

0.850***

0.832***

0.709***

0.669***

0.626***

0.585***

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.011)

(0.011)

(0.015)

(0.015)

Observations

14,031

13,835

14,304

14,103

14,086

13,904

Overall R-squared

0.042

0.062

0.031

0.080

0.020

0.040

Contributions of HB to Education gradient

28.6%

40.3%

62.9%