Table 2

Socioeconomic and related data compared between the full study cohort, those with a long-term illness or disability and those with no long-term health problems

Variable	Full cohort		Long-term illness/disability		No long-term illness/disability		p Value*
Variable	N	Per cent	N	Per cent	N	Per cent	p Value*
Household car							<0.001
Yes	10 964	80.3	2384	67.2	8573	84.9	<0.001
Paid work/week							<0.001
Yes	6586	48.2	584	16.5	5998	59.4	<0.001
Unpaid work last week for own business?							0.040
No	6402	99.1	2865	99.4	3531	98.9
Unpaid work last week for any family business?							0.777
No	6383	99.7	2858	99.8	3519	99.7
NSSEC 3†							<0.001
Managerial/professional Intermediate	3855	28.2	698	19.7	3154	31.2
Routine/manual	2905	21.3	678	19.1	2225	22.0
Never worked	5639	41.3	1857	52.3	3780	37.4
Full time education	509	3.7	225	6.3	283	2.8
Not classified	751	5.5	92	2.6	656	6.5
Benefits
Yes	7792	57.0	2986	84.1	4799	47.5	<0.001
Residence
Urban	8827	64.6	2355	66.3	6465	64.0	0.072
NUTS3‡							<0.001
Belfast	2144	15.7	630	17.7	1514	15.0
Outer Belfast	3019	22.1	779	21.9	2236	22.1
East of NI	3343	24.5	797	22.5	2540	25.2
North of NI	2049	15.0	542	15.3	1506	14.9
West+South NI	3016	22.1	786	22.1	2230	22.1
Household internet
Yes	8602	63.0	1582	44.6	7013	69.4	<0.001
Personal internet
Yes	8551	62.6	1471	41.4	7075	70.1	<0.001
Do you have internet access?							<0.001
Yes	7791	91.1	1235	84.0	6551	92.6
MDM deciles							<0.001
1	1210	8.9	447	12.6	763	7.6
2	1274	9.3	408	11.5	864	8.6
3	1280	9.4	385	10.8	892	8.8
4	1449	10.6	381	10.7	1066	10.6
5	1422	10.4	385	10.8	1037	10.3
6	1407	10.3	356	10.0	1051	10.4
7	1449	10.6	319	9.0	1129	11.2
8	1488	10.9	336	9.5	1151	11.4
9	1385	10.1	276	7.8	1108	11.0
10	1295	9.5	257	7.2	1037	10.3

*χ² tests were used to compare the groups: those with a long-term illness to those with no long-term illness.
†NSSEC3—marker of social class.
‡NUTS3—Northern Ireland is split up into 5 different geographical areas.
NI, Northern Ireland.