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. 2014 Jun 25;14:467. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-467

Table 1.

Sample demographics

  Number 1 (%) South West and Oxford Cancer Registry Areas, 2009–2011 2 (%) England, 2009–2010 (%) 2
Age group
  <40
31 (6%)
285 (55%)
10,535 (40%)
33,885 (41%)
  40-49
100 (19%)
  50-59
154 (30%)
  60-69
170 (33%)
237 (45%)
15,653 (60%)
47,901 (59%)
  ≥70
67 (13%)
Ethnicity
  White
510 (98%)
Information not available
78,075 (95%)
  Non-white (Asian/Chinese/Mixed)
9 (2%)
3,711 (5%)
Marital status
  Married/Long-term relationship
412 (78%)
Information not available
Information not available
  Single/Divorced/Widowed
113 (22%)
Socio-economic group
  Employers & managers
57 (11%)
Information not available
Information not available
  Professionals
64 (12%)
  Intermediate non-manual
137 (26%)
  Junior non-manual
123 (23%)
  Manual (skilled & unskilled)
40 (8%)
  Other
45 (8%)
  Not known
67 (13%)
Current employment status
  Employed (full-time)
131 (25%)
Information not available
Information not available
  Employed (part-time)
122 (23%)
  Homemaker
48 (9%)
  Unemployed
16 (3%)
  Retired
182 (35%)
  Other
27 (5%)
Index of multiple deprivation (IMD) quintiles 3
  1 (Most deprived)
46 (11%)
7,373 (28%)
Information not available
  2
105 (25%)
7,091 (27%)
  3
105 (25%)
6,071 (23%)
  4
105 (25%)
4,118 (16%)
  5 (Least deprived) 70 (16%) 1,535 (6%)  

1Where numbers do not equal 543 missing data are present.

2Data supplied by Public Health England Knowledge and Intelligence Team (South West).

3IMD Quintile data are only comparable within England – patients recruited in Wales were excluded from these calculations (n = 29).