Table 1.
Sample characteristics, overall and according to each outcome variable, ABACUS II, England, 2015.
| Characteristic | Total (n = 784) | Screening intentions |
‘Ever uptake’ |
Repeated uptake |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes, definitely N (%) | All other responses N (%) | Yes N (%) | No N (%) | Yes N (%) | No N (%) | ||
| Age group | |||||||
| 60–64 | 345 (44.0) | 218 (63.2) | 127 (36.8) | 220 (75.3) | 72 (24.7) | 133 (74.3) | 46 (25.7) |
| 65–70 | 439 (56.0) | 282 (64.2) | 157 (35.8) | 317 (81.9) | 70 (18.1) | 269 (88.8) | 34 (11.2) |
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 379 (48.3) | 233 (61.5) | 146 (38.5) | 262 (78.9) | 70 (21.1) | 201 (82.7) | 42 (17.3) |
| Female | 405 (51.7) | 267 (65.9) | 138 (34.1) | 275 (79.3) | 72 (20.7) | 201 (84.1) | 38 (15.9) |
| Marital status | |||||||
| Married/living as married | 479 (61.1) | 322 (67.2) | 157 (32.8) | 338 (79.5) | 87 (20.5) | 252 (84.0) | 48 (16.0) |
| Divorced, separated, or widowed | 222 (28.3) | 135 (60.8) | 87 (39.2) | 150 (81.1) | 35 (18.9) | 114 (82.0) | 25 (18.0) |
| Single | 83 (10.6) | 43 (51.8) | 40 (48.2) | 49 (71.0) | 20 (29.0) | 36 (83.7) | 7 (16.3) |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| White | 746 (95.2) | 484 (64.9) | 262 (35.1) | 516 (79.0) | 137 (21.0) | 385 (83.2) | 78 (16.8) |
| Non-white | 38 (4.8) | 16 (42.1) | 22 (57.9) | 21 (80.8) | 5 (19.2) | 17 (89.5) | 2 (10.5) |
| Occupation-based social grade | |||||||
| A/B | 164 (20.9) | 119 (72.6) | 45 (27.4) | 131 (88.5) | 16 (11.5) | 109 (91.6) | 10 (8.4) |
| C1 | 157 (20.0) | 102 (65.0) | 55 (35.0) | 108 (21.7) | 30 (78.3) | 72 (75.8) | 23 (24.2) |
| C2 | 166 (21.2) | 106 (63.9) | 60 (36.1) | 109 (77.3) | 31 (22.7) | 78 (83.0) | 16 (17.0) |
| D | 103 (13.1) | 70 (68.0) | 33 (32.0) | 67 (77.9) | 19 (22.1) | 64 (97.0) | 2 (3.0) |
| E | 194 (24.7) | 103 (53.1) | 91 (46.9) | 122 (73.5) | 44 (26.5) | 111 (91.0) | 11 (9.0) |
| Smoking status | |||||||
| Never smoker | 397 (50.6) | 255 (51.0) | 142 (50.0) | 281 (52.3) | 56 (39.4) | 210 (52.2) | 40 (50.0) |
| Former smoker | 240 (30.6) | 167 (33.4) | 73 (25.7) | 175 (32.6) | 45 (31.7) | 136 (33.8) | 26 (32.5) |
| Current smoker | 147 (18.8) | 78 (15.6) | 69 (24.3) | 81 (15.1) | 41 (28.9) | 56 (13.9) | 14 (17.5) |
| Perceived life expectancy | |||||||
| <80 years | 194 (29.5) | 115 (59.3) | 79 (40.7) | 124 (75.2) | 41 (24.8) | 87 (77.7) | 25 (22.3) |
| 80 to 89 years | 322 (49.0) | 224 (69.6) | 98 (30.4) | 239 (81.8) | 53 (18.2) | 183 (83.9) | 35 (16.1) |
| ≥90 years | 141 (21.5) | 98 (69.5) | 43 (30.5) | 101 (82.1) | 22 (17.9) | 77 (90.6) | 8 (9.4) |