Total n = 94,818 | British Cohort Study | Health Survey for England | LSYPE | Scottish Health Survey | Understanding Society | |||||||
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Year sexual orientation identity recorded | 2012 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2009/10 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2011/12 |
Study sample size | 6,958 | 7,116 | 7,033 | 7,299 | 6,310 | 5,091 | 6,208 | 6,229 | 6,391 | 4,149 | 4,320 | 27,714 |
Refused identity itema (%) | 0.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 6.5 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 0.1 |
GHQ score ≥4 (%) | - | - | 15.1 | - | 22.3 | 14.3 | 14.4 | 15.9 | 15.0 | 14.7 | 15.1 | 18.9 |
Anxious/depressed (%) | - | 26.5 | 19.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Low wellbeing score (%) | 31.1 | 21.6 | 19.5 | 21.7 | - | 27.9 | 28.6 | 30.4 | 27.7 | 28.4 | 27.8 | - |
Age (range 16;103) | 40;40 | 16;96 | 16;98 | 16;104 | 16;19 | 18;93 | 18;101 | 18;96 | 18;103 | 18;99 | 18;99 | 16;100 |
Male (%) | 45.8 | 44.6 | 44.7 | 44.6 | 49.6 | 43.6 | 43.9 | 42.9 | 43.0 | 44.1 | 43.1 | 43.3 |
Lesbian/Gay | 1.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.3 |
Bisexual | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
‘Other’ | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
Ethnic minorityb | 3.1 | 9.4 | 9.3 | 10.0 | 30.1 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 13.1 |
University degree | 24.9 | 25.1 | 26.1 | 26.5 | 18.2 | 26.9 | 27.6 | 28.5 | 28.0 | 30.0 | 30.7 | 24.2 |
Smoker | 23.3 | 19.9 | 18.8 | 19.2 | 20.8 | 39.4 | 36.0 | 36.4 | 36.1 | 38.8 | 38.3 | 55.1 |
Longstanding illness | 14.8 | 42.4 | 41.2 | 41.3 | 6.6 | 43.0 | 42.0 | 47.7 | 47.1 | 34.3 | 33.4 | 34.1 |
Married/co-habiting | 80.7 | 64.2 | 64.2 | 54.2 | 30.7 | 67.4 | 67.0 | 63.5 | 65.5 | 65.5 | 63.4 | 63.1 |