Table 1 Characteristics of participants in the study sample (n = 6524) and comparison with those excluded because of missing values (n = 2057)
From: Intragenerational social mobility and self-rated oral health in the british cohort study
Study sample | Excluded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | ||
Gender | |||||
Male | 3302 | 50.6 | 852 | 41.4 | |
Female | 3222 | 49.4 | 1205 | 58.6 | |
Ethnicity | |||||
White | 6232 | 95.5 | 1797 | 92.9 | |
Non-White | 292 | 4.5 | 137 | 7.1 | |
Country | |||||
England | 5642 | 86.5 | 1805 | 87.7 | |
Wales | 546 | 8.4 | 122 | 5.9 | |
Scotland | 336 | 5.2 | 130 | 6.3 | |
Residence area | |||||
Urban | 4506 | 69.1 | 1534 | 74.6 | |
Rural | 2018 | 30.9 | 523 | 25.4 | |
Social class at age 26 years | |||||
I/II | 2724 | 41.8 | 148 | 35.4 | |
III-NM/M | 2882 | 44.2 | 178 | 42.6 | |
IV/V | 918 | 14.1 | 92 | 22.0 | |
Social class at age 46 years | |||||
I/II | 3586 | 55.0 | 545 | 42.2 | |
III-NM/M | 1797 | 27.5 | 390 | 30.2 | |
IV/V | 1141 | 17.5 | 356 | 27.6 | |
Self-rated oral health | |||||
Good | 5075 | 77.8 | 1358 | 66.2 | |
Poor | 1449 | 22.2 | 694 | 33.8 | |