Table 5.
Socio-economic characteristics of participants by sample type
| Core % |
Boost % |
Significance p value |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Highest educational qualification | |||
| Higher degree/Degree/NVQ4/5 | 35 | 34 | < 0.001 |
| NVQ3/GCE A Level equiv - any grade | 11 | 13 | |
| NVQ1/2 GCE O Level equiv - any grade | 25 | 24 | |
| Other (e.g. City and Guilds, RSA/OCR, BTEC) | 4 | 3 | |
| No qualification | 25 | 15 | |
| Missing | 0.3 | 9 | |
| Economic activity | |||
| Full time study | 7 | 8 | 0.005 |
| In paid work | 56 | 52 | |
| Looking for work | 3 | 3 | |
| Ill (Long and short term) | 4 | 4 | |
| Retired | 18 | 14 | |
| Looking after home | 11 | 10 | |
| Doing something else | 1 | 3 | |
| Missing | 0 | 6 | |
| Base (unweighted) | 1,569 | 4,942 | |