Individual quality of life and the environment – towards a concept of livable areas for persons with disabilities in Poland

Table 1 Descriptive characteristic of independent variables

	Overall Quality of Life		LHDI_2010		Environment - services		Environment – living conditions		Sample
	Mean	Std Dev.	Mean	Std Dev.	Mean	Std Dev.	Mean	Std Dev.	n	%
Total	0.00	1.00	46.13	15.39	0.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	6615	100.0
Sex
Man	0.08	1.02	45.94	15.69	0.01	1.04	−0.02	0.99	2756	41.7
Woman	−0.06	0.98	46.27	15.16	−0.01	0.97	0.02	1.01	3859	58.3
Age
below 45	0.27	1.12	46.78	14.92	0.02	0.94	−0.03	1.00	849	12.8
45–54	0.01	1.01	43,59	13.46	−0.16	0.79	−0.02	0.97	757	11.4
55–64	−0.07	0.98	46.17	15.58	−0.03	1.00	0.01	0.99	1707	25.8
65–74	0.01	0.98	45.97	15.42	0.01	1.00	0.05	1.02	1581	23.9
75+	−0.12	0.92	47.01	16.21	0.09	1.12	−0.03	1.01	1721	26.0
Household size
single	−0.28	0.99	48.71	17.00	0.21	1.18	−0.06	0.98	1169	17.7
2 persons	0.07	1.00	47.50	15.66	0.07	1.02	0.04	1.02	2572	39.0
3 persons	0.05	1.01	45.76	14.38	−0.06	0.94	−0.06	0.98	1138	17.3
4 persons	0.17	0.98	45.99	15.61	0.01	1.03	0.02	1.03	807	12.2
5 or more persons	0.09	0.94	40.10	10.97	−0.37	0.45	0.05	0.99	906	13.7
Marital status
single	−0.14	1.09	46.73	16.19	0.04	1.03	−0.06	0.95	1067	16.2
married	0.19	0.94	45.40	14.73	−0.06	0.93	0.02	1.01	3919	59.5
divorced	−0.34	1.11	50.56	16.65	0.27	1.14	0.08	1.09	421	6.4
widowed	−0.26	0.96	46.31	15.85	0.04	1.08	−0.04	0.98	1606	24.4
Place of residence
cities 500 k+	0.23	1.00	72.65	16.04	1.85	1.38	−0.52	0.63	681	10.3
cities 100 k–499 k	0.10	1.02	57.03	7.95	0.65	0.94	0.03	1.02	1160	17.6
towns 20 k–99 k	−0.04	0.99	45.70	9.88	−0.30	0.36	0.14	1.09	1239	18.8
towns less than 20 k	0.02	1.05	38.16	8.29	−0.42	0.37	0.05	0.91	954	14.5
rural	−0.11	0.96	37.29	9.84	−0.49	0.33	0.04	1.02	2556	38.8

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