Table 1 Distribution of respondents in each of the labour market exit groups by sex, marital status, social class, income quintiles, wealth quintiles, area deprivation quintile, educational qualification, subjective status and tenure.

	<10 years	10–19 years	⩾20 years
Female	47.68	50.18	67.85
Married or cohabiting	70.34	57.18	42.93
Managerial and professional occupations	33.81	29.04	23.09
Intermediate occupations	21.01	19.94	24.11
Routine and manual occupations	45.14	50.97	52.80
Lowest income quintile	21.36	24.83	32.66
2nd lowest income quintile	23.42	27.72	28.79
Middle income quintile	20.96	23.83	20.35
2nd highest income quintile	18.78	13.57	11.80
Highest income quintile	13.96	9.47	6.41
Lowest wealth quintile	14.18	22.99	31.03
2nd lowest wealth quintile	16.90	21.83	19.23
Middle wealth quintile	20.56	19.78	18.72
2nd highest wealth quintile	23.06	19.04	16.99
Highest wealth quintile	23.77	15.78	14.04
Least deprived area	24.17	21.67	17.29
2nd least deprived area	24.04	21.15	22.99
Median deprived area	21.01	20.73	21.06
2nd most deprived area	17.48	19.94	19.23
Most deprived area	13.20	16.52	19.43
No formal education	41.61	52.60	61.65
Compulsory education	19.89	17.89	14.34
Post‐compulsory education	29.44	19.15	14.34
Lowest status	9.55	11.10	12.51
Middle status	66.73	65.12	58.70
Highest status	15.21	10.47	7.93
Not an owner occupier	27.65	30.98	38.35
Base	2202	2199	935