Table 1.

Demographic comparisons of ORiEL adolescent sample with UK census information

	ORiEL study sample at 2012 baseline		2011 census in ORiEL catchment area a
	N	%	N	%
Gender b
Male	1756	56.6	6205	50.9
Ethnic group c
White: UK	598	19.5	13328	24.0
White: Other	399	13.0	4454	7.4
White: Mixed	380	12.4	4648	7.7
Asian: Indian	108	3.5	2846	4.2
Asian: Pakistani	130	4.2	2888	4.1
Asian: Bangladeshi	508	16.6	12976	22.4
Asian: Other	27	0.9	1943	3.0
Black: Caribbean	147	4.8	2772	4.6
Black: African	364	11.9	8666	14.3
Black: Other	242	7.9	2511	4.2
Other	163	5.3	2392	4.0
Nativity c
Born overseas	628	20.7	26697	12.2
Borough b
Newham	895	28.8	3,967	32.7
Tower Hamlets	807	26.0	2,771	22.8
Barking & Dagenham	670	21.6	2,559	21.1
Hackney	733	23.6	2,839	23.4
Economic Activity d
Both unemployed	279	10.4	23536	11.7
One parent employed	941	35.07	67187	33.4
Both parents employed	1054	39.28	61638	30.6
Lone parent employed	235	8.76	23145	11.5
Lone parent unemployed	174	6.49	25917	12.9

^aIn order to protect against disclosure of personal information age groups have been combined and some records have been swapped between different geographic areas.

^bCensus sample is age 10 at March 2011.

^cCensus sample is age 10–14 at March 2011.

^dCensus sample is all parents aged 16 and over with dependent children at March 2011.