Table 1 Descriptive statistics of GLOBE respondents
Educational level (2004) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Lowest | Low | Middle | High | |
N = 2692a | N = 196 | N = 896 | N = 604 | N = 891 | |
Age (2004) | |||||
Mean (SD) | 55.2 (13.6) | 63.1 (10.9) | 59.9 (10.8) | 50.9 (13.5) | 50.5 (13.9) |
Gender (2004), % | |||||
Female | 53.6 | 65.8 | 64.1 | 47.8 | 42.9 |
Male | 46.4 | 34.2 | 35.9 | 52.2 | 57.0 |
NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Time orientation (2011) | |||||
Mean (SD) | 3.2 (0.5) | 3.0 (0.5) | 3.2 (0.5) | 3.3 (0.5) | 3.4 (0.4) |
Range | 1.1–4.8 | 1.2–4.2 | 1.1–4.7 | 1.8–4.8 | 1.8–4.5 |
NA, % | 20.2 | 19.9 | 16.6 | 20.5 | 23.5 |
Financial strain (2011), % | |||||
No difficulty | 76.7 | 57.7 | 72.8 | 74.5 | 87.0 |
Some difficulty | 19.2 | 32.7 | 22.5 | 21.7 | 10.7 |
Great difficulty | 2.9 | 7.1 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 1.7 |
NA | 1.2 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
Housing tenure (2011), % | |||||
Owned home | 68.6 | 26.0 | 57.7 | 72.8 | 87.8 |
Rented home | 30.2 | 72.4 | 40.4 | 26.2 | 12.0 |
NA | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.2 |
Monthly income group (2011), % | |||||
0–1200 Euros | 7.7 | 28.1 | 10.7 | 4.0 | 1.7 |
1200–1800 Euros | 17.3 | 33.2 | 25.8 | 16.1 | 5.6 |
1800–2600 Euros | 25.4 | 13.8 | 30.1 | 30.8 | 18.9 |
2600–4000 Euros | 26.5 | 4.6 | 15.6 | 32.3 | 39.7 |
> 4000 Euros | 11.7 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 8.6 | 25.8 |
Unknown/refuse to say/NA | 11.4 | 19.9 | 14.4 | 8.3 | 8.3 |
Smoking status (2014), % | |||||
Non-smoker | 87.6 | 87.6 | 81.6 | 86.4 | 85.3 |
Smoker | 11.3 | 15.8 | 11.6 | 14.2 | 8.1 |
NA | 1.2 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Sports participation (2014), % | |||||
Inactive | 40.3 | 62.2 | 46.9 | 36.9 | 30.3 |
Little active | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.9 |
Moderately active | 12.9 | 5.1 | 11.0 | 15.1 | 15.8 |
Active | 34.9 | 17.3 | 29.0 | 37.6 | 43.5 |
NA | 10.1 | 13.8 | 11.7 | 9.1 | 7.4 |
BMI (2014), % | |||||
Underweight | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
Normal | 41.3 | 36.7 | 33.9 | 39.1 | 51.3 |
Overweight | 41.0 | 34.7 | 45.5 | 44.4 | 35.9 |
Obese | 14.5 | 22.4 | 17.0 | 14.4 | 10.3 |
NA | 2.3 | 4.6 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
Self-assessed health (2014), % | |||||
Poor | 2.2 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.0 |
Fair | 16.5 | 33.2 | 22.8 | 11.4 | 8.3 |
Good | 50.7 | 47.4 | 54.0 | 51.5 | 48.1 |
Very good | 22.1 | 10.2 | 15.0 | 26.5 | 29.4 |
Excellent | 7.9 | 0.5 | 4.8 | 8.4 | 12.8 |
NA | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 |