Table 5

Wave 5—logistic regression results (Firth bias-corrected) probability of being in the higher risk drinking category (people aged 50 or over)

	Women		Women (linear on age)		Men
Dependent variable: whether respondent is in the higher risk category	Estimate	Pr(>\|z\|)	Estimate	Pr(>\|z\|)	Estimate	Pr(>\|z\|)
Intercept	−2.080	0.791	−4.541	0.003	−16.990	0.001
Age	−0.106	0.658	−0.056	0.001	0.437	0.004
Age squared	0.000	0.859			−0.004	0.002
Income (logs)	0.435	0.011	0.466	0.002	0.035	0.714
Smoking	0.022	0.001	0.023	0.000	0.018	0.001
Physically active	−0.094	0.507	0.064	0.622	−0.009	0.917
Self-reported health	0.302	0.006	0.266	0.007	0.131	0.074
Children in household	−0.540	0.004	−0.348	0.033	−0.142	0.158
Depression (Yes=1)	0.185	0.574	0.149	0.608	0.012	0.959
Loneliness (Yes=1)	0.308	0.212	0.163	0.465	0.083	0.632
Ethnicity (non-white=1)	−1.912	0.059	14.767	0.976	−1.977	0.001
Social detachment (Yes=1)	0.069	0.834	0.229	0.439	0.122	0.571
Religion important (Yes=1)	−0.011	0.895	−0.048	0.518	−0.075	0.167
Caring responsibilities (Yes=1)	0.007	0.981	0.122	0.625	−0.412	0.134
Healthy diet (Yes=1)	−0.102	0.646	−0.159	0.413	−0.088	0.536
Education attainment
No qualifications	1.000		1.000		1.000
NVQ1/CSE other grade	0.321	0.685	0.142	0.854	0.312	0.390
NVQ2/GCE O Level/NVQ3/GCE A Level/Foreign	0.700	0.023	0.688	0.025	0.206	0.367
Higher below degree/NVQ4/ NVQ5/Degree	0.817	0.017	0.866	0.008	0.717	0.001
Marital status
Married/cohabiting	1.000		1.000		1.000
Single, separated or divorced	−0.079	0.769	−0.108	0.657	0.297	0.096
Widowed	−0.528	0.189	−0.608	0.103	0.384	0.211
Economic activity
Employed			1.000		1.000
Inactive	−0.103	0.786	−0.041	0.904	−0.109	0.719
Retired	0.446	0.139	0.497	0.050	−0.166	0.380
Likelihood ratio test	83.64		84.19		96.83
Likelihood ratio test	df=21 p=0 n=4423		df=21 p=0 n=4423		df=21 p=0 n=3927