Indicators of socioeconomic status included educational attainment, social class, employment status, household income and housing tenure.
3 4 The association between socioeconomic position (usually defined through educational attainment, occupational class or income) and obesity is well-documented.
In our data, housing tenure was more strongly associated with smoking than educational attainment, social class or car ownership.
After adjusting for these confounding variables smoking was not associated with the type of diabetes, educational attainment, social class or car ownership.
Variables considered as potential confounders in this analysis were maternal age, pre-pregnancy BMI, pre-pregnancy weight, parity, educational attainment, social class, alcohol intake and paternal smoking.
Roskam and Kunst [ 15] compared socioeconomic variation in European countries and analysed differences in the prevalence of overweight by educational attainment, occupational class and household income.
8 9 There is a general consensus that the reasons for this difference are complex and cannot be explained by factors such as prior attainment, social class, and school background, and this is supported by our analyses.
Alternatively, in the flipped model, the student was given responsibility for content attainment before class, and the instructor was then able to facilitate concept application through complex problem-solving and group work on items that would traditionally have been homework assignments.
"Given their educational and occupational attainment, middle-class parents appeared to perceive themselves as equal or greater in status relative to children's teachers," the report says.
The most predictable marker of educational attainment remains social class and, although universities strive to widen participation and deliver social mobility, board membership is frequently seen as an establishment position.
We also found significant effect modification by educational attainment and occupation class.
