Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of British and Chinese men

	Comparison of British and Chinese mena						Comparison of British and Chinese violent men (subsample analyses)b								Comparison of violent mena
	British (n = 2046)		Chinese (n = 4132)				British (n = 622)				Chinese (n = 901)
	n	%	n	%	F	P	n	%	F	P	n	%	F	P	F	P
Single marital status	1212	59.7	2172	52.7	13.37	<0.001	414	67.1	20.26	<0.001	641	71.2	42.54	<0.001	1.26	0.261
Higher educational qualifications	432	21.9	1251	31.2	30.75	<0.001	85	14.1	29.66	<0.001	199	22.9	10.40	0.001	9.22	0.002
Ethnic minority group	246	12.1	109	2.6	124.88	<0.001	49	7.9	15.56	<0.001	33	3.8	1.96	0.161	7.57	0.006
Lower occupational status	1443	75.5	3029	79.8	7.53	0.006	476	81.6	16.36	<0.001	663	83.5	3.29	0.070	0.48	0.491

	M	SD	M	SD	F	P	M	SD	F	P	M	SD	F	P	F	P
Age	26.10	4.97	25.89	4.95	1.20	0.274	25.18	4.98	30.13	<0.001	23.97	4.61	47.71	<0.001	10.53	0.001

N and % reflect absolute and relative frequencies of independent variables among the two groups

^aReference group: British men

^bReference group: non-violent men