Factors that Affect Maintenance of a Healthy Lifestyle

Student: Efimova Maria

Faculty: International College of Economics and Finance

Educational Programme: Double degree programme in Economics of the NRU HSE and the University of London (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2016

Abstract In this paper we examine factors that determine the choice of keeping to a particular type of a lifestyle. We study how gender, marital status, weight, age and level of education influence on people aged 14-40 to choose a lifestyle pattern. The data we get from RLMS-HSE. We are going to use factor and cluster analyses in order to study the data as well as run a multinomial regression. The results of the regression show us that level of education positive effect on the type of a lifestyle. Also, we discovered that men tend to be healthier than women. Moreover, we confirmed that excess weight prevents leading healthy lifestyle. However, it was found out that marital status does not play a positive role in determining lifestyle pattern. Also, we observed that health level does not deteriorate with age.

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