|
Total n = 94,818
|
British Cohort Study
|
Health Survey for England
|
LSYPE
|
Scottish Health Survey
|
Understanding Society
|
|---|
|
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
|
- Note. aRefusal to answer sexual orientation identity item (excluded from the analytic sample).bLSYPE and Understanding Society over-sample ethnic minority groups, explaining the high proportions seen here
