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Table 5 Mean SF-36 Scale and Component Summary Scores, by measures of demographic and socio-economic circumstances. The F statistic associated with each comparison is indicated, together with minimum number of respondents in each cell (in brackets).

From: The validity of the SF-36 in an Australian National Household Survey: demonstrating the applicability of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examination of health inequalities

 

PCS

MCS

PF

RP

BP

GH

VT

SF

RE

MH

Gender

          

Male (5817)

49.49

50.45

83.84

80.23

74.96

69.51

62.63

82.21

83.46

74.61

Female (6503)

48.97

49.15

81.18

77.90

72.84

69.57

58.85

80.09

80.22

72.25

F(1,475)

8.19

53.82

44.89

14.56

24.03

0.03

121.39

27.94

30.55

62.19

 

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***

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ns

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Age

          

18–25 (2135)

53.23

48.26

91.75

88.48

80.26

73.38

62.53

82.65

83.09

71.64

26–39 (3535)

52.16

48.88

89.17

86.40

78.71

73.85

60.97

82.50

83.91

72.80

40–55 (3676)

49.56

49.99

84.28

80.82

73.70

69.49

60.86

81.71

83.35

73.74

56–65 (1452)

44.47

51.51

72.87

69.27

66.23

63.72

60.87

79.87

80.42

74.44

66–75 (992)

41.70

52.92

65.10

61.29

64.59

62.26

59.47

79.61

78.90

76.14

75+ (530)

35.85

51.31

49.49

39.71

57.64

55.57

53.21

70.22

62.76

75.01

F(5,451)

324.72

29.94

302.04

210.84

96.79

85.05

15.69

17.57

25.92

8.15

 

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Marital status

          

Married/de facto (7928)

48.85

50.73

82.36

79.15

73.68

69.62

61.08

82.97

83.74

74.93

Divorced/separated (1013)

47.01

47.50

77.23

71.74

67.25

65.87

57.02

72.82

73.94

69.29

F(1.475)

18.74

59.43

29.33

28.06

31.20

19.39

25.41

94.83

52.03

60.11

 

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Educational attainment

          

Yr 12 or above (7975)

50.29

49.92

85.59

81.92

75.86

71.22

61.46

82.40

83.43

74.17

Yr 11 or less (4041)

47.15

49.56

76.64

73.48

70.22

66.32

59.31

78.82

78.74

72.00

F(1.475)

159.19

2.48

235.31

112.92

95.55

102.68

24.48

42.39

40.34

28.45

 

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ns

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Employment status

          

Employed (7741)

51.77

50.25

89.04

87.14

78.54

73.40

62.57

85.13

86.53

74.87

Unemployed (520)

51.22

47.08

85.07

82.37

76.28

70.67

62.85

77.57

76.39

68.72

F(1.471)

1.58

36.90

17.16

10.00

3.69

6.47

0.10

46.04

36.74

44.94

 

ns

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**

ns

*

ns

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Housing status

          

Own/mortgage (9281)

49.12

50.43

82.58

78.86

74.20

69.99

61.16

82.54

83.10

74.48

Rent (3039)

49.53

47.97

82.24

79.63

73.01

68.26

59.46

77.15

78.18

70.38

F(1.475)

1.77

92.54

0.20

0.75

2.79

6.35

11.43

72.65

36.32

81.86

 

ns

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ns

ns

ns

*

***

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***

Receipt of welfare payments (working age respondents)

          

Non-recipients (8373)

51.75

50.16

88.93

86.86

78.45

73.25

62.73

84.87

86.09

74.66

Welfare recipients (2091)

46.57

46.16

76.22

68.35

66.22

62.71

55.48

70.35

71.10

66.50

F(1,473)

259.15

174.85

305.32

300.00

223.36

274.19

147.06

431.71

241.05

221.56

 

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  1. Degrees of freedom for F statistics based on number of clusters (primary sampling units) and number of strata
  2. * p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001
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