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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 19;220(5):287–294. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2021.205

Table 1. Descriptive statistics of the total analytical sample and by keyworker status (weighted).

  Total, % Non-keyworker, % Health/social care, % Teacher/chilh care, % Public service, % Essential services keyworkers, a %
  (n = 21 874) (n = 14 252) (n = 3326) (n = 1241) (n = 1815) (n = 1240)
  Raw Weighteh Weighteh Weighteh Weighteh Weighteh Weighteh
Gender
     Women 78.8 51.0 49.1 69.8 74.2 51.3 33.2
     Men 21.2 49.0 50.9 30.2 25.8 48.7 66.8
Ethnicity
     Ethnic minority groups 5.4 10.9 10.7 15.6 16.5 10.6 5.1
     White 94.6 89.1 89.3 84.4 83.5 89.4 94.9
Age, years
     18-29 6.7 15.3 15.9 19.0 16.2 11.9 9.8
     30-45 35.0 36.9 36.5 36.9 40.0 35.2 39.6
     46-59 42.7 34.4 33.1 31.7 37.7 42.0 38.2
     ≥60 15.7 13.4 14.6 12.4 6.2 10.9 12.4
Education
     Low (up to GCSE)b 9.6 28.9 27.4 24.6 16.8 30.6 46.0
     Medium (A-levels or equivalent)b 15.2 31.7 30.8 28.3 31.6 33.5 39.0
     High (university degree or above) 75.2 39.4 41.9 47.1 51.6 35.8 15.0
Physical health diagnosis
     Yes 31.7 31.4 30.5 35.5 24.0 34.1 32.9
     No 68.3 68.6 69.5 64.5 76.0 65.9 67.1
Mental health diagnosis
     Yes 16.4 16.7 16.0 21.0 15.8 16.7 16.1
     No 83.6 83.3 84.0 79.0 84.2 83.3 83.9
a

Essential services keyworkers includes utility worker (for example energy, sewerage, postal service), public safety or national security workers, workers involved in medicines or protective equipment production or distribution, transport workers still travelling in to work, and food chain workers (for example production, sale, delivery).

b

General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) typically taken at the age of 15 or 16; Advanced Level qualifications (A-levels) and other equivalent educational qualifications that are not part of higher education (typically age 16–19).