Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics
| Total (n = 875) |
Indian (n = 234) |
Pakistani (n = 166) |
Bangladeshi (n = 63) |
Caribbean (n = 126) |
African (n = 108) |
Chinese (n = 53) |
white-British (n = 125) |
Significance | |
| Gender % | |||||||||
| Male (n = 429) | 49.0 | 49.1 | 50.6 | 52.4 | 46.0 | 48.1 | 50.9 | 48.0 | χ2(6, 875) = 1.07, P = 0.983 |
| Female (n = 446) | 51.0 | 50.9 | 49.4 | 47.6 | 54.0 | 51.9 | 49.1 | 52.0 | |
| Age % | |||||||||
| 16–24 (n = 201) | 23.0 | 21.4 | 30.1 | 31.7 | 16.7 | 21.3 | 24.5 | 19.2 | χ2(24, 875) = 46.6, P = 0.004 |
| 25–34 (n = 224) | 25.6 | 24.4 | 27.7 | 31.7 | 19.0 | 33.3 | 24.5 | 22.4 | |
| 35–44 (n = 189) | 21.6 | 20.5 | 16.3 | 17.5 | 26.2 | 28.7 | 22.6 | 21.6 | |
| 45–54 (n = 127) | 14.5 | 16.2 | 12.7 | 9.5 | 12.7 | 10.2 | 17.0 | 20.8 | |
| 55+ (n = 134) | 15.3 | 17.5 | 13.3 | 9.5 | 25.4 | 6.5 | 11.3 | 16.0 | |
| Marital status % | |||||||||
| Married/cohabiting (n = 404) | 46.2 | 51.7 | 46.4 | 52.4 | 54.8 | 38.9 | 41.5 | 32.0 | n/a* |
| Single (n = 402) | 45.9 | 44.9 | 48.8 | 42.9 | 37.3 | 54.6 | 56.6 | 42.4 | |
| Divorced/separated/widowed (n = 69) | 7.9 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 7.9 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 25.6 | |
| Religion % | |||||||||
| Muslim (n = 266) | 30.4 | 5.6 | 100 | 100 | 0.8 | 21.3 | 0 | 0 | n/a* |
| Christian (n = 335) | 38.3 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 99.2 | 78.7 | 34.0 | 83.2 | |
| Hindu (n = 164) | 18.7 | 70.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sikh (n = 54) | 6.2 | 23.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Confucian (n = 30) | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56.6 | 0 | |
| Other (n = 26) | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.4 | 16.8 | |
| Main language spoken at home % | n/a* | ||||||||
| English (n = 736) | 84.1 | 84.5 | 69.3 | 71.4 | 100 | 89.8 | 56.6 | 100 | |
| Urdu (n = 21) | 1.5 | 0 | 7.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Punjabi (n = 67) | 6.5 | 8.1 | 22.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gujarati (n = 17) | 2.1 | 7.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sylheti (n = 18) | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cantonese (n = 23) | 2.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43.4 | 0 | |
| Other (n = 11) | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Locality % | |||||||||
| London (n = 365) | 41.7 | 25.6 | 42.2 | 66.7 | 52.4 | 75.0 | 34.0 | 22.4 | χ2(18, 875) = 228.0, P < 0.001 |
| Midlands (n = 258) | 29.5 | 42.3 | 34.3 | 9.5 | 31.0 | 9.3 | 15.1 | 31.2 | |
| South (n = 258) | 9.3 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 14.3 | 5.6 | 4.6 | 30.2 | 27.2 | |
| North (n = 171) | 19.5 | 29.5 | 21.1 | 9.5 | 11.1 | 11.1 | 20.8 | 19.2 | |
| Employment status % | |||||||||
| Full-time (n = 428) | 48.9 | 62.0 | 51.2 | 46.0 | 42.9 | 50.9 | 58.5 | 23.2 | χ2(12, 875) = 71.9, P < 0.001 |
| Part-time (n = 167) | 19.1 | 10.3 | 13.9 | 22.2 | 23.8 | 18.5 | 13.2 | 39.2 | |
| Not working (n = 280) | 32.0 | 27.8 | 34.9 | 31.7 | 33.3 | 30.6 | 28.3 | 37.6 | |
| Socio-economic category % | |||||||||
| AB Managerial/professional (n = 178) | 20.3 | 25.2 | 23.5 | 19.0 | 14.3 | 19.4 | 24.5 | 12.8 | χ2(24, 875) = 58.2, P < 0.001 |
| C1 Supervisory (n = 242) | 27.7 | 25.2 | 33.1 | 25.4 | 27.8 | 25.9 | 28.3 | 27.2 | |
| C2 Skilled manual workers (n = 232) | 26.5 | 30.3 | 25.3 | 14.3 | 30.2 | 20.4 | 26.4 | 28.8 | |
| D Semi-skilled/unskilled manual workers (n = 143) | 16.3 | 15.4 | 7.8 | 20.6 | 15.9 | 19.4 | 17.0 | 24.8 | |
| E State pensioners/unemployed (n = 80) | 9.1 | 3.8 | 10.2 | 20.6 | 11.9 | 14.8 | 3.8 | 6.4 | |
| Weekly income % | |||||||||
| £300 or less (n = 339) | 38.8 | 31.9 | 47.6 | 38.1 | 37.3 | 45.4 | 22.6 | 43.2 | χ2(12, 873) = 34.3, P = 0.001 |
| £301–£500 (n = 344) | 39.4 | 47.8 | 36.1 | 41.3 | 35.7 | 33.3 | 34.0 | 38.4 | |
| £501 or more (n = 190) | 21.8 | 20.3 | 16.3 | 20.6 | 27.0 | 21.3 | 43.4 | 18.4 |
* insufficient counts per cell to perform Chi-square test