Descriptive statistics of the unweighted and weighted samples
| Unweighted (n=22 463) | Weighted (n=14 783) | |
| Proportion/ mean (SE) | Proportion/ mean (SE) | |
| Community cultural engagement, wave 2 | ||
| Cultural events* | 2.19 (1.47) | 2.22 (0.01) |
| Museums and heritage sites* | 1.95 (1.50) | 1.96 (0.01) |
| Mental well-being, wave 5 | ||
| Life satisfaction† | 5.03 (1.51) | 5.06 (0.01) |
| Mental distress (GHQ-12, ranging from 1 to 4) | 1.93 (0.00) | 1.92 (0.00) |
| Mental health functioning (SF-12; ranging from 1 to 5) | 3.74 (0.00) | 3.76 (0.01) |
| Demographic backgrounds, wave 2 | ||
| Age | 47.8 (16.9) | 46.9 (0.17) |
| Gender (%) | ||
| Female | 56.7 | 51.8 |
| Male | 43.3 | 48.2 |
| Ethnicity (%) | ||
| White | 86.1 | 90.7 |
| Asian/Asian British | 7.89 | 5.37 |
| Black/black British | 3.66 | 2.22 |
| Mixed/other | 2.35 | 1.76 |
| Living alone (%) | ||
| No | 84.8 | 84.8 |
| Yes | 15.2 | 15.2 |
| Partnership status (%) | ||
| Single and never married | 17.7 | 21.9 |
| Married or in cohabitation | 67.8 | 64.3 |
| Separated or divorced or widowed | 14.5 | 13.8 |
| Responsible for child(ren) under 16 years (%) | ||
| No | 80.8% | 83.6% |
| Yes | 19.3% | 16.4% |
| Regions (%) | ||
| North (North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber) | 27.9 | 28.2 |
| Midlands (East Midlands and West Midlands) | 19.9 | 18.8 |
| South (London, South East, South West and East) | 52.2 | 53.1 |
| Socioeconomic position, wave 2 | ||
| Educational levels (%) | ||
| University degree | 37.2 | 35.2 |
| Advanced (higher education/A-level) | 19.6 | 20.2 |
| GCSE or equivalent | 21.4 | 21.3 |
| Unrecognised/no qualification | 21.9 | 23.3 |
| Occupational socioeconomic status (%) | ||
| Managerial/professional | 28.5 | 27.4 |
| Intermediate/small employment/own account | 15.7 | 15.5 |
| Lower supervision/lower technician/semi-routine/routine | 21.0 | 22.5 |
| Not in employment (incl. retired, full-time student) | 34.7 | 34.3 |
| Household monthly gross income (%) | ||
| £0–£1015 | 21.1 | 21.4 |
| £1015–£1551 | 24.2 | 24.4 |
| £1551–£2355 | 26.4 | 26.1 |
| £2355–£32 622 | 28.3 | 28.2 |
| Housing tenure (%) | ||
| House owner | 74.2 | 72.1 |
| Social rent | 15.4 | 15.9 |
| Private rent | 10.5 | 12.0 |
| Levels of area deprivation‡ | 5.66 (2.84) | 5.70 (0.03) |
*A six-point scale, ranging from ‘not once in the last 12 months’, ‘once in the last 12 months’, ‘twice in the last 12 months’, ‘less often than once a month but at least three or four times a year’, ‘less often than once a week but at least once a month’ to ‘at least once a week’.
†Life satisfaction was measured using a scale from 1 ‘completely unsatisfied’ to 7 ‘completely satisfied’.
‡Levels of area deprivation was derived from the Index of Multiple Deprivation, which has a scale from 1: ‘most deprived 10%’ to 10: ‘least deprived 10%’.
GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; GHQ-12, 12-item General Health Questionnaire; SF-12, 12-item Short Form Health Survey.