Table 1.

Respondent details.

Group		Gender	Age	Education	Employment
Eating disorders
AED1		F	29	College	Professiona dancer
AED2	Carer	F	56	GCEs	Foster carer
AED3		F	44	Graduate	Teacher
AED4	Carer/AED recovered	F	18	A levels	Police officer
AED5		F	24	Graduate	Unemployed
Homeless
HL1		M	Missing data	Missing data	Unemployed
HL2		M	Missing data	Missing data	Unemployed
HL3		M	34	GCSEs	Unemployed
HL4		F	43	GCSEs	Unemployed
HL5		M	40	Left school at 13 years	Unemployed
HL6		F	Missing data	Missing data	Unemployed
Asylum Seekers
AS1		F	39	Graduate	Missing data
AS2		F	33	College	Missing data
AS3		F	43	Masters	Volunteer
AS4		M	26	A levels	Volunteer
AS5		M	18	GCSEs	Studying
Chinese
C1	Interpreted	F	60	Attended school between ages of 11 and 16	Missing data
C4	Interpreted	F	81	No schooling	Agriculture and catering (retired)
C5	Interpreted	F	77	Disrupted schooling between ages of 12 and 21	Cook/waitress (retired)
C6	Interpreted	M	76	Left school at 12 years	Cook (retired)
C7	Interpreted	F	67	Left school at 14 years	Home-maker
Irish
I2		M	31	GCSE	Unemployed
I3		F	32	Left school at 11 years	Unemployed
I4		F	59	PostGraduate diploma	Freelance consultant
I5		F	46	Missing data	Support Worker
South Asian
SA1	Interpreted	F	63	Missing data	Machinist/Market trader
SA2		M	72	Missing data	Clothes designer (retired)
SA3	Interpreted	F	56	Left school at 12 years	Home-maker
SA4	Interpreted	F	49	Left school at 10 years	Unemployed
SA5		F	28	GNVQ	Home-maker
Somali
S1	Interpreted	F	58	No schooling	Not working due to health problems
S2		F	34	Left school at 12 years	Missing data
S3		M	40	College	Unemployed