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Table 3 Predictor variables—characteristics

From: Measuring and exploring mental health determinants: a closer look at co-residents’ effect using a multilevel structural equations model

Predictors measured at the individual level

  Binary variables

Sample total; % with value 1

    X(co): Co-resident’s experience of common mental disorder

N = 2143; 27.6%

    X2: Male

N = 2143; 49.7%

    X3: Working status

N = 2143; 46.4%

    X4: individual’s history of common mental disorder

N = 2143; 24.1%

    X5: Headship of the household

N = 2143; 82.8%

  Ordinal variables

Sample total; frequencies

    X6: having close relationship with other people

N = 1996; none = 22, rarely = 102, some of the time = 616, often = 886, All the time = 370

  Continuous variables

Sample total; mean (SD)

    X1: Age

N = 2143, 55.76 (18.38)

    X7: Obesity

N = 2042, 26.72 (5.3)

Predictors measured at the household-level

  Ordinal variables

Sample total; frequencies

    Z1: Household Deprivation index

N = 2143; Quintiles Q1 = 549, Q2 = 500, Q3 = 458, Q4 = 352, Q5 = 284

  Continuous variables

Sample total; mean (SD)

    Z2: Household’s close relationship with other people

N = 1933; 3.749 (0.632)

  1. Key: SD Standard deviation