Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of adult participants (age ≥19 years) of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2008–2011 (Number of adult participants and percentages, n 1491)

	Men	Women	Total	Missing data
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Total	724	48·6	767	51·4	1491	100	0	0
Age (years)							0	0
19–34	202	27·9	192	25·0	394	26·4
35–50	228	31·4	235	30·6	463	31·0
51–64	157	21·7	163	21·3	320	21·4
65+	138	19·0	177	23·1	315	21·1
Highest educational level							7	0·5
No qualifications	143	19·8	178	23·2	321	21·5
GCSE/equivalent	156	21·5	161	21·0	317	21·3
Further or higher education	177	24·4	189	24·7	366	24·6
Degree or above	190	26·2	166	21·7	356	23·9
Foreign qualification	32	4·4	34	4·4	66	4·4
Full-time education	22	3·0	35	4·6	57	3·8
Ethnicity							0	0
White	647	89·4	689	89·8	1336	89·6
Non-white	77	10·6	78	10·2	155	10·4
Equivalised household income (£) (12 months)							245	16·4
≤ 14 999	120	19·8	173	27·1	293	34·1
15 000–24 999	147	24·2	151	23·6	298	25·6
25 000–34 999	134	22·1	129	20·2	263	14·0
35 000–49 999	105	17·3	96	15·0	201	7·5
≥ 50 000	101	16·6	90	14·1	191	4·4
Occupational class*							32	2·1
Routine	88	12·3	71	9·6	159	10·9
Semi-routine	84	11·7	96	12·9	180	12·3
Lower supervisory and technical	81	11·3	80	10·8	161	11·0
Small employers	78	10·9	93	12·5	171	11·7
Intermediate	48	6·7	78	10·5	126	8·6
Lower managerial and professional	194	27·1	219	29·5	413	28·3
Higher managerial and professional	133	18·6	88	11·8	221	15·1
Never worked	10	1·4	18	2·4	28	1·9

GCSE, General Certificate of Education.

^*Occupational class of the household reference person.