Table 1. Demographic characteristics of participants [IMD=indices of multiple deprivation].
| Characteristic | Current study participants (N=6279) |
Workers in Virus Watch cohort (N=20 258) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | |||
| Occupation | ||||
| Healthcare | 584 (9.3) | 1686 (8.3) | ||
| Teaching, education and childcare | 661 (11) | 2297 (11) | ||
| Social care and community protective Services | 368 (5.9) | 1117 (5.5) | ||
| Leisure and personal service | 304 (4.8) | 1014 (5.0) | ||
| Indoor trades, process and plant | 411 (6.5) | 1405 (6.9) | ||
| Administrative and secretarial | 880 (14) | 2539 (13) | ||
| Sales and customer service | 295 (4.7) | 1058 (5.2) | ||
| Transport and mobile machine | 139 (2.2) | 479 (2.4) | ||
| Managers, directors and senior officials | 509 (8.1) | 1653 (8.2) | ||
| Other professional and associate | 1935 (31) | 6539 (32) | ||
| Outdoor trades | 193 (3.1) | 471 (2.3) | ||
| Age (years) | ||||
| <30 | 303 (4.8) | 1796 (8.9) | ||
| 30–39 | 535 (8.5) | 3457 (17) | ||
| 40–49 | 1112 (18) | 4402 (22) | ||
| 50–59 | 2164 (34) | 5728 (28) | ||
| ≥60 | 2165 (34) | 4875 (24) | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 3658 (58) | 11 299 (55.8) | ||
| Male | 2603 (41) | 8923 (44) | ||
| Missing/other | 18 (0.3) | 36 (0.2) | ||
| Clinically vulnerability | ||||
| Clinically vulnerable | 2279 (36) | 7031 (35) | ||
| Not clinically vulnerable | 4000 (64) | 13 227 (65) | ||
| Ethnicity | ||||
| White British | 5401 (88) | 16 411 (81) | ||
| White Other | 466 (7.6) | 1855 (9.3) | ||
| Mixed | 71 (1.2) | 346 (1.7) | ||
| South Asian | 86 (1.4) | 906 (4.5) | ||
| Other Asian | 46 (0.8) | 203 (1.0) | ||
| Black | 38 (0.6) | 214 (1.1) | ||
| Other ethnicity | 25 (0.4) | 118 (0.6) | ||
| Missing | 146 (2.3) | 205 (1) | ||
| IMD quintile | ||||
| 1 | 546 (8.8) | 2081 (10) | ||
| 2 | 973 (16) | 3480 (17) | ||
| 3 | 1266 (20) | 4089 (20) | ||
| 4 | 1611 (26) | 4944 (24) | ||
| 5 | 1800 (29) | 5390 (27) | ||
| Missing | 83 (1.3) | 274 (1) | ||
| Region | ||||
| East Midlands | 600 (9.6) | 1799 (8.9) | ||
| East of England | 1222 (19) | 3889 (19) | ||
| London | 860 (14) | 3565 (17) | ||
| North East | 254 (4.0) | 882 (4.4) | ||
| North West | 617 (9.8) | 2031 (10) | ||
| South East | 1261 (20) | 3846 (19) | ||
| South West | 517 (8.2) | 1388 (6.9) | ||
| Wales | 199 (3.2) | 547 (2.7) | ||
| West Midlands | 354 (5.6) | 1058 (5.2) | ||
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 312 (5.0) | 979 (4.8) | ||
| Missing | 83 (1.3) | 274 (1) | ||