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Table 2 Life event occurrence by demographic characteristics

From: The impact of life events on adult physical and mental health and well-being: longitudinal analysis using the GoWell health and well-being survey

Demographic characteristicsa

Life eventsa

Health event

New job or promotion

Unemployed, redundancy or reduced hours

Parenthood

Relationship breakdown

Bereavement

Marriage

Victimisation

Behavioural problem with child

Housing improvement

House move

n (% of whole sample)

Total number

328 (26.3)

88 (7.1)

93 (7.5)

66 (5.3)

52 (4.2)

312 (25.0)

17 (1.4)

88 (7.1)

31 (2.5)

560 (44.9)

459 (36.8)

n (% of those who experienced a LE)

Gender

 Male

133 (40.5)

38 (43.2)

50 (53.8)

20 (30.3)

17 (32.7)

116 (37.2)

5 (29.4)

31 (35.2)

3 (9.7)

231 (41.3)

190 (41.4)

 Female

195 (59.5)

50 (56.8)

43 (46.2)

46 (69.7)

35 (67.3)

196 (62.8)

12 (70.6)

57 (64.8)

28 (90.3)

329 (58.8)

269 (58.6)

Age

16–24

2 (0.6)

4 (4.5)

5 (5.4)

4 (6.1)

2 (3.8)

4 (1.3)

1 (5.9)

3 (3.4)

0 (0.0)

8 (1.4)

7 (1.5)

25–39

36 (11.0)

42 (47.7)

30 (32.3)

52 (78.8)

10 (19.2)

58 (18.6)

8 (47.1)

23 (26.1)

16 (51.6)

104 (18.6)

82 (17.9)

40–54

109 (33.2)

35 (39.8)

42 (45.2)

8 (12.1)

34 (65.4)

105 (33.7)

3 (17.6)

45 (51.1)

14 (45.2)

162 (28.9)

132 (28.8)

55–64

58 (17.7)

5 (5.7)

13 (14.0)

2 (3.0)

3 (5.8)

45 (14.4)

3 (17.6)

9 (10.2)

0 (0.0)

111 (19.8)

73 (15.9)

65+

123 (37.5)

2 (2.3)

3 (3.2)

0 (0.0)

3 (5.8)

100 (32.1)

2 (11.8)

8 (9.1)

1 (3.2)

175 (31.3)

165 (35.9)

Education

None/SLC

231 (70.4)

25 (28.4)

40 (43.0)

30 (45.5)

34 (65.4)

184 (59.0)

5 (29.4)

41 (46.6)

13 (41.9)

351 (62.7)

290 (63.2)

>SLC

84 (25.6)

59 (67.0)

49 (52.7)

34 (51.5)

15 (28.8)

120 (38.5)

10 (58.8)

45 (51.1)

18 (58.1)

180 (32.1)

146 (31.8)

Missing

13 (4.0)

4 (4.5)

4 (4.3)

2 (3.0)

3 (5.8)

8 (2.6)

2 (11.8)

2 (2.3)

0 (0.0)

29 (5.2)

23 (5.0)

  1. aData collected at wave 3, 2011 for life events that had occurred since wave 2, 2008