Descriptive statistics for the variables used in the statistical analyses are shown in Table 1. Persons in the south-east were somewhat older, better educated, and to a lesser extent living alone.Persons in the north-west showed poorer self-assessed health and higher prevalence of high civilian trauma exposure, PTSD, PMDD, current stress, and psychiatric co-morbidity, as well as higher psychiatric symptom scores. The two regions did not differ significantly in terms of economic outcomes.