Distribution of baseline demographic, socioeconomic and mental health characteristics for people who acquired a disability and those with no disability for a randomly selected imputed dataset
| Categorical variables | No disability (n=5419) | Disability (n=233) | ||
| n | % | n | % | |
| Sex | ||||
| Men | 2607 | 48.1 | 117 | 50.2 |
| Women | 2812 | 51.9 | 116 | 49.8 |
| Country of birth | ||||
| Australia | 4116 | 76.0 | 181 | 77.7 |
| Other | 1303 | 24.1 | 52 | 22.3 |
| Parent occupation | ||||
| High skilled | 812 | 15.0 | 43 | 18.5 |
| Medium skilled | 1817 | 33.5 | 80 | 34.3 |
| Low skilled/not in the labour force | 2790 | 51.5 | 110 | 47.2 |
| Education | ||||
| Higher education | 1906 | 35.2 | 46 | 19.7 |
| Secondary education | 2611 | 48.2 | 120 | 51.5 |
| Less than secondary | 902 | 16.7 | 67 | 28.8 |
| Employment status | ||||
| Employed | 4698 | 86.7 | 186 | 79.8 |
| Unemployed/not in the labour force | 721 | 13.3 | 47 | 20.2 |
| Occupation | ||||
| High skilled | 2119 | 39.1 | 65 | 27.9 |
| Medium skilled | 1780 | 32.9 | 77 | 33.1 |
| Low skilled | 799 | 14.7 | 44 | 18.9 |
| Unemployed/not in the labour force | 721 | 13.3 | 47 | 20.2 |
| Wealth | ||||
| Highest tertile | 2088 | 38.5 | 84 | 36.1 |
| Middle tertile | 1998 | 36.9 | 84 | 36.1 |
| Lowest tertile | 1333 | 24.6 | 65 | 27.9 |
| Financial hardship | ||||
| Prosperous/very comfortable | 978 | 18.1 | 26 | 11.2 |
| Reasonably comfortable | 2959 | 54.6 | 122 | 52.4 |
| Just getting along/poor/very poor | 1482 | 27.4 | 85 | 36.5 |
| Housing tenure | ||||
| Outright owner | 1173 | 21.7 | 61 | 26.2 |
| Mortgage | 2638 | 48.7 | 102 | 43.8 |
| Renter | 1608 | 29.7 | 70 | 30.0 |
| Housing affordability | ||||
| Affordable | 4983 | 92.0 | 206 | 88.4 |
| Not affordable | 436 | 8.1 | 27 | 11.6 |
| Relationship status | ||||
| In a relationship | 4280 | 79.0 | 185 | 79.4 |
| Not in a relationship | 1139 | 21.0 | 48 | 20.6 |
| Children | ||||
| Yes | 1479 | 27.3 | 53 | 22.8 |
| No | 3940 | 72.7 | 180 | 77.3 |
| Smoking status | ||||
| Never | 2929 | 54.1 | 99 | 42.5 |
| Ex | 1414 | 26.1 | 73 | 31.3 |
| Current | 1076 | 19.9 | 61 | 26.2 |
| Alcohol consumption | ||||
| Never | 643 | 11.9 | 31 | 13.3 |
| Rarely | 1824 | 33.7 | 96 | 41.2 |
| 1–2 days per week | 1262 | 23.3 | 44 | 18.9 |
| >2 days per week | 1691 | 31.2 | 62 | 26.6 |
| Physical activity | ||||
| >3 times per week | 1828 | 33.7 | 70 | 30.0 |
| 1–3 times per week | 2316 | 42.7 | 90 | 38.6 |
| Less than once per week | 1275 | 23.5 | 73 | 31.3 |
| Continuous variables | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
| Age | 43.9 | 10.1 | 48.3 | 9.6 |
| Weekly income ($A) | 984.9 | 612.6 | 827.0 | 519.5 |
| Social support | 5.6 | 1.0 | 5.2 | 1.1 |
| Frequency of socialising | 4.4 | 1.4 | 3.9 | 1.6 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 26.5 | 5.0 | 28.2 | 5.5 |
| Mental health at baseline | 77.3 | 14.2 | 70.2 | 18.7 |
BMI, body mass index.