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Table 1 Overview of variables constructed for data analysis

From: Gender and the double burden of economic and social disadvantages on healthy eating: cross-sectional study of older adults in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort

Exposures of Interest

Dichotomisation approach

‘High’ economic resource

‘Low’ economic resource

Social class

Professional, managerial & technical, skilled non-manual

Skilled manual, partly skilled, unskilled

Education

Degree, A-level

O-level, no qualification

Home-ownership

Owner-occupier

Renter-private, renter-public

Money for needs

More than enough

Just enough, less than enough

Frequency of insufficient money for food/clothing

Never, seldom

Sometimes, often, always

Paying bills (level of difficulty)

None, slight, a little

Some, great, very great

 

‘Present’ social relationship

‘Absent’ social relationship

Marital status

Married, living as married (“married”)

Single, widowed, divorced, separated (“non-married”)

Living arrangement

Co-living

Lone-living

Frequency of friend contact

Daily, weekly, several times a month (“frequent”)

About once a month, less than once a month, never/hardly ever (“infrequent”)