Part One - Likert Scale Frequency Table and Plot for Depression

Basic frequencies

##      Item None or almost none of the time Some of the time Most of the time
## 1  fltdpr                       64.915835         29.06631         4.557165
## 2 flteeff                       48.395568         38.42383         9.814171
## 3   slprl                       43.873854         39.87056        11.625059
## 4   wrhpp                        4.003510         23.53973        48.886939
## 5  fltlnl                       68.136458         24.27532         5.302253
## 6   enjlf                        5.338783         24.82572        44.804153
## 7   fltsd                       52.489933         41.07451         4.859808
## 8  cldgng                       55.673484         36.10353         6.217928
##   All or almost all of the time
## 1                      1.460694
## 2                      3.366431
## 3                      4.630532
## 4                     23.569817
## 5                      2.285972
## 6                     25.031346
## 7                      1.575748
## 8                      2.005056

Basic plot 1

Append means and counts to table

##      Item None or almost none of the time Some of the time Most of the time
## 1  fltdpr                       64.915835         29.06631         4.557165
## 2 flteeff                       48.395568         38.42383         9.814171
## 3   slprl                       43.873854         39.87056        11.625059
## 4   wrhpp                        4.003510         23.53973        48.886939
## 5  fltlnl                       68.136458         24.27532         5.302253
## 6   enjlf                        5.338783         24.82572        44.804153
## 7   fltsd                       52.489933         41.07451         4.859808
## 8  cldgng                       55.673484         36.10353         6.217928
##   All or almost all of the time     Mean Count
## 1                      1.460694 1.425627 39981
## 2                      3.366431 1.681515 39983
## 3                      4.630532 1.770123 40017
## 4                     23.569817 2.920231 39890
## 5                      2.285972 1.417377 39983
## 6                     25.031346 2.895281 39878
## 7                      1.575748 1.555214 39981
## 8                      2.005056 1.545546 39949

Formatted table

Distribution of answers regarding depression symptoms (ESS round 11, all countries)
Item None or almost none of the time Some of the time Most of the time All or almost all of the time Mean Count
How much of the time during the past week you felt depressed? 64.9 29.1 4.6 1.5 1.4 39981
How much of the time during the past week you felt that everything you did was an effort? 48.4 38.4 9.8 3.4 1.7 39983
How much of the time during the past week your sleep was restless? 43.9 39.9 11.6 4.6 1.8 40017
How much of the time during the past week you were happy? 4.0 23.5 48.9 23.6 2.9 39890
How much of the time during the past week you felt lonely? 68.1 24.3 5.3 2.3 1.4 39983
How much of the time during the past week you enjoyed life? 5.3 24.8 44.8 25.0 2.9 39878
How much of the time during the past week you felt sad? 52.5 41.1 4.9 1.6 1.6 39981
How much of the time during the past week you could not get going?. 55.7 36.1 6.2 2.0 1.5 39949

Basic plot 2

Part Two - Non-weighted vs weighted model

Non-weighted Model

## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = depression ~ alcfreq + gndr + cgtsmok + gndr + agea_n + 
##     eisced + health, data = df_de)
## 
## Residuals:
##      Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
## -1.04472 -0.27157 -0.05028  0.20790  2.16524 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                                                             Estimate Std. Error
## (Intercept)                                                1.5204819  0.0786949
## alcfreqSeveral times a week                               -0.0221115  0.0399626
## alcfreqOnce a week                                        -0.0123071  0.0406397
## alcfreq2-3 times a month                                   0.0137760  0.0435646
## alcfreqOnce a month                                        0.0075431  0.0464458
## alcfreqLess than once a month                              0.0626197  0.0427665
## alcfreqNever                                               0.1115571  0.0431254
## gndrFemale                                                 0.0806295  0.0177140
## cgtsmokI smoke daily, 9 or fewer cigarettes               -0.0257815  0.0431473
## cgtsmokI smoke but not every day                           0.0010662  0.0474679
## cgtsmokI don’t smoke now but I used to                    -0.0882779  0.0299806
## cgtsmokI have only smoked a few times                     -0.0688746  0.0352542
## cgtsmokI have never smoked                                -0.1048450  0.0281665
## agea_n                                                    -0.0023650  0.0005396
## eiscedES-ISCED II, lower secondary                         0.1305194  0.0710685
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIb, lower tier upper secondary            0.0320965  0.0671653
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIa, upper tier upper secondary            0.0605257  0.0752024
## eiscedES-ISCED IV, advanced vocational, sub-degree         0.0121947  0.0678068
## eiscedES-ISCED V1, lower tertiary education, BA level      0.0108585  0.0706733
## eiscedES-ISCED V2, higher tertiary education, >= MA level  0.0051974  0.0690300
## healthGood                                                 0.1644785  0.0242680
## healthFair                                                 0.3517344  0.0270187
## healthBad                                                  0.6969733  0.0366309
## healthVery bad                                             0.8613992  0.0850057
##                                                           t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)                                                19.321  < 2e-16 ***
## alcfreqSeveral times a week                                -0.553 0.580107    
## alcfreqOnce a week                                         -0.303 0.762043    
## alcfreq2-3 times a month                                    0.316 0.751862    
## alcfreqOnce a month                                         0.162 0.871000    
## alcfreqLess than once a month                               1.464 0.143267    
## alcfreqNever                                                2.587 0.009746 ** 
## gndrFemale                                                  4.552 5.59e-06 ***
## cgtsmokI smoke daily, 9 or fewer cigarettes                -0.598 0.550216    
## cgtsmokI smoke but not every day                            0.022 0.982082    
## cgtsmokI don’t smoke now but I used to                     -2.944 0.003266 ** 
## cgtsmokI have only smoked a few times                      -1.954 0.050861 .  
## cgtsmokI have never smoked                                 -3.722 0.000202 ***
## agea_n                                                     -4.382 1.23e-05 ***
## eiscedES-ISCED II, lower secondary                          1.837 0.066406 .  
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIb, lower tier upper secondary             0.478 0.632785    
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIa, upper tier upper secondary             0.805 0.420995    
## eiscedES-ISCED IV, advanced vocational, sub-degree          0.180 0.857290    
## eiscedES-ISCED V1, lower tertiary education, BA level       0.154 0.877904    
## eiscedES-ISCED V2, higher tertiary education, >= MA level   0.075 0.939989    
## healthGood                                                  6.778 1.54e-11 ***
## healthFair                                                 13.018  < 2e-16 ***
## healthBad                                                  19.027  < 2e-16 ***
## healthVery bad                                             10.133  < 2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 0.4132 on 2354 degrees of freedom
##   (42 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.2254, Adjusted R-squared:  0.2178 
## F-statistic: 29.78 on 23 and 2354 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

Weighted Model

## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = depression ~ alcfreq + gndr + cgtsmok + gndr + agea_n + 
##     eisced + health, data = df_de, weights = pspwght)
## 
## Weighted Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -1.5726 -0.2070 -0.0391  0.1498  3.7044 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                                                             Estimate Std. Error
## (Intercept)                                                1.4930473  0.0635045
## alcfreqSeveral times a week                               -0.0183075  0.0411650
## alcfreqOnce a week                                        -0.0039897  0.0413555
## alcfreq2-3 times a month                                  -0.0385177  0.0439932
## alcfreqOnce a month                                        0.0058139  0.0470853
## alcfreqLess than once a month                              0.0396259  0.0423457
## alcfreqNever                                               0.0988902  0.0426726
## gndrFemale                                                 0.0889036  0.0180549
## cgtsmokI smoke daily, 9 or fewer cigarettes                0.0215546  0.0409516
## cgtsmokI smoke but not every day                          -0.0101073  0.0472732
## cgtsmokI don’t smoke now but I used to                    -0.0662052  0.0290395
## cgtsmokI have only smoked a few times                     -0.0891170  0.0342470
## cgtsmokI have never smoked                                -0.0966172  0.0266338
## agea_n                                                    -0.0028069  0.0005121
## eiscedES-ISCED II, lower secondary                         0.1422677  0.0488486
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIb, lower tier upper secondary            0.0438513  0.0477990
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIa, upper tier upper secondary            0.1849768  0.0611179
## eiscedES-ISCED IV, advanced vocational, sub-degree         0.0124237  0.0496833
## eiscedES-ISCED V1, lower tertiary education, BA level      0.1033921  0.0563422
## eiscedES-ISCED V2, higher tertiary education, >= MA level  0.0010199  0.0523476
## healthGood                                                 0.1864119  0.0260783
## healthFair                                                 0.4087645  0.0288664
## healthBad                                                  0.7640432  0.0367571
## healthVery bad                                             0.9240594  0.0832794
##                                                           t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)                                                23.511  < 2e-16 ***
## alcfreqSeveral times a week                                -0.445 0.656552    
## alcfreqOnce a week                                         -0.096 0.923154    
## alcfreq2-3 times a month                                   -0.876 0.381372    
## alcfreqOnce a month                                         0.123 0.901741    
## alcfreqLess than once a month                               0.936 0.349487    
## alcfreqNever                                                2.317 0.020567 *  
## gndrFemale                                                  4.924 9.06e-07 ***
## cgtsmokI smoke daily, 9 or fewer cigarettes                 0.526 0.598700    
## cgtsmokI smoke but not every day                           -0.214 0.830717    
## cgtsmokI don’t smoke now but I used to                     -2.280 0.022707 *  
## cgtsmokI have only smoked a few times                      -2.602 0.009321 ** 
## cgtsmokI have never smoked                                 -3.628 0.000292 ***
## agea_n                                                     -5.481 4.67e-08 ***
## eiscedES-ISCED II, lower secondary                          2.912 0.003620 ** 
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIb, lower tier upper secondary             0.917 0.359021    
## eiscedES-ISCED IIIa, upper tier upper secondary             3.027 0.002500 ** 
## eiscedES-ISCED IV, advanced vocational, sub-degree          0.250 0.802565    
## eiscedES-ISCED V1, lower tertiary education, BA level       1.835 0.066621 .  
## eiscedES-ISCED V2, higher tertiary education, >= MA level   0.019 0.984457    
## healthGood                                                  7.148 1.17e-12 ***
## healthFair                                                 14.161  < 2e-16 ***
## healthBad                                                  20.786  < 2e-16 ***
## healthVery bad                                             11.096  < 2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 0.4153 on 2354 degrees of freedom
##   (42 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.2653, Adjusted R-squared:  0.2582 
## F-statistic: 36.96 on 23 and 2354 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16