Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of study participants.
| Characteristic | No incentives (n = 86) |
£25 (n = 99) |
£1000 (n = 90) |
Total (n = 275) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No load (n = 43) | Load (n = 43) | No load (n = 41) | Load (n = 58) | No load (n = 43) | Load (n = 47) | ||
| Mean age yrs (sd) | 24.4 (8.07) | 23.9 (5.16) | 25.7 (7.32) | 23.9 (7.00) | 26.7 (9.74) | 25.2 (8.19) | 25.0 (7.43) |
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 44% | 49% | 41% | 44% | 51% | 55% | 48% |
| Female | 56% | 51% | 59% | 55% | 49% | 45% | 52% |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| White | 49% | 63% | 58% | 52% | 67% | 66% | 59% |
| Mixed | 9% | 2% | 5% | 7% | 0% | 4% | 5% |
| Asian | 37% | 28% | 27% | 36% | 21% | 23% | 29% |
| Black | 2% | 5% | 10% | 2% | 5% | 6% | 5% |
| Occupation | |||||||
| Student | 74% | 74% | 68% | 79% | 79% | 74% | 75% |
| Employed full-time | 14% | 16% | 19% | 7% | 16% | 15% | 15% |
| Employed part-time | 0% | 5% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Unemployed | 7% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| Education | |||||||
| A-levels | 14% | 12% | 15% | 19% | 14% | 17% | 15% |
| Working towards degree | 30% | 28% | 24% | 28% | 32% | 21% | 27% |
| Completed degree | 21% | 12% | 17% | 14% | 9% | 13% | 14% |
| Working towards postgrad | 21% | 32% | 24% | 24% | 20% | 30% | 25% |
| Completed postgrad | 14% | 14% | 17% | 12% | 23% | 17% | 16% |
| Relationship | |||||||
| Single | 37% | 60% | 49% | 64% | 44% | 59% | 52% |
| In relationship | 37% | 26% | 32% | 21% | 32% | 28% | 29% |
| Married | 16% | 2% | 12% | 7% | 14% | 9% | 10% |