Variable | Categories |
---|---|
City of residence | Glasgow* |
Liverpool | |
Manchester | |
Gender | Male* |
Female | |
Age | 16–29* |
30–44 | |
45–64 | |
65 and older | |
Social grade | A (higher managerial, administrative or professional) and B (intermediate managerial, administrative or professional)*† |
C1 (supervisory, clerical and junior managerial, administrative or professional) | |
C2 (skilled manual workers) | |
D (semi and unskilled manual workers) | |
E (on state benefits/unemployed/lowest grade workers) | |
Employment status | Employed (PT/FT)* |
Unemployed | |
Ill/disabled | |
Retired | |
Looking after home/family | |
In education/training (PT/FT) | |
Educational attainment | No qualifications* |
Some qualifications, but not degree level‡ | |
1st degree and above (includes NVQ/SVQ Level 5 or equivalent)§ | |
Deprivation quintile¶ | 1 (most deprived)* |
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
5 (least deprived) | |
Ethnicity | Not a member of ethnic minority group* |
Member of ethnic minority group** | |
Marital status | Never married* |
Married/civil partnership | |
Separated/divorced | |
Widowed/surviving partner | |
Length of residence (approximate) | Time in city not known* |
Possibly long-term resident†† |
*Denotes reference category.
†Social Grades ‘A’ and ‘B’ were combined into one single category because of the very small number of respondents in each city classed as Social Grade ‘A’.
‡No degree level qualifications but one of the following categories: O Grade, Standard Grade, O Level, Access 3 Cluster, Intermediate 1 or 2, GCSE, CSE, Senior Certificate or equivalent; SCE Higher Grade, Higher, Advanced Higher, CSYS, A level, AS Level, Advanced Senior Certificate or equivalent; GNVQ/GSVQ Foundation or Intermediate, NVQ/SVQ Level 1 or 2, SCOTVEC Module, City and Guilds Craft or equivalent; GNVQ/GSVQ Advanced, NVQ/SVQ Level 3, ONC, OND, SCOTVEC National Diploma, City and Guilds Advanced Craft or equivalent; HNC, HND, NVQ/SVQ level 4 or equivalent; Professional qualifications; Other school qualifications not already mentioned (including foreign qualifications); Other postschool but preHigher Education qualifications not already mentioned (including foreign qualifications); Other Higher Education qualifications not already mentioned (including foreign qualifications); Other vocational/work-related qualifications.
§Full list on questionnaire: First Degree, Postgraduate qualifications, Masters, PhD, NVQ/SVQ Level 5 or equivalent.
¶Based on ‘income deprivation’ in 2005, the measure in previous analyses of deprivation and mortality in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.2
**Includes the following categories: White and Black Caribbean; White and Black African; White and Asian; Any other mixed or multiple ethnic groups ; Indian; Pakistani; Bangladeshi; Chinese; Any other Asian background; African; Caribbean; Black; Any other Black/African/Caribbean background; Arab; Any other ethnic group.
††In analysing the data it seemed important to distinguish the views of those who had been resident in their city for a long time and those who had not. However, no specific question on length of residence in the city was included in the survey. Thus, a crude measure of likely length of residence was derived from other available information: respondents were asked how long they had lived in their neighbourhood (with options ranging from ‘under six months’ to ‘over five years’), and those who lived through the 1980s (ie, were aged at least 36 at the time of the survey) were additionally asked in which city they were resident for most of that decade. From those two questions, respondents were categorised as being ‘Possibly long-term resident’ (based on either being resident in their neighbourhood for 5 years or more, or having been in the same city in the 1980s) or ‘length of residence in city unknown’.
FT, full time; NVQ/SVQ, National Vocational Qualifications Scottish Vocational Qualifications; PT, part time.