Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents to Understanding Society and the European Health Interview Survey.

	Understanding Society		European Health Interview Survey
	All included responsesN (weighted %)	Born outside the UKN (weighted %)	All included responsesN (weighted %)	Born outside the UKN (weighted %)
All	38,511 (100)	6477 (10.2)	20,072 (100)	1825 (11.9)
Living in the UK >10 years
Yes	33,198 (92.8)	1164 (28.8)
No	5313 (7.2)	5313 (71.2)
Sex
Women	21,407 (52.2)	3712 (53.4)	10,935 (51.3)	1012 (52.5)
Men	17,104 (47.8)	2765 (46.6)	9137 (48.7)	813 (47.5)
Age
16–24	4766 (12.7)	525 (11.2)	1138 (14.2)	91 (11.2)
25–34	5058 (13.6)	1029 (20.4)	1693 (16.8)	311 (26.7)
35–44	6568 (15.2)	1669 (26.2)	2690 (16.3)	439 (24.5)
45–54	7263 (18.2)	1310 (18.4)	3438 (17.5)	326 (16.6)
55–64	6125 (15.9)	993 (11.5)	3960 (14.1)	263 (9.1)
65–74	5207 (13.9)	562 (7.0)	4298 (11.7)	224 (6.0)
75–84	2759 (7.8)	317 (4.0)	2294 (7.5)	143 (5.1)
85+	765 (2.7)	72 (1.2)	561 (1.9)	28 (0.8)
Grouped household income (n = 20,064)
Lowest	6630 (20.0)	1181 (18.4)	3644 (17.8)	434 (23.3)
Second	6874 (20.1)	1172 (18.3)	4043 (19.3)	396 (22.6)
Third	6957 (20.0)	1138 (20.5)	4024 (18.6)	299 (15.0)
Fourth	7044 (19.9)	1089 (19.0)	4174 (21.2)	303 (16.7)
Highest	6913 (20.0)	1272 (23.9)	4179 (23.2)	392 (22.4)
Employment status (n = 20,061)
In employment	21,214 (55.5)	3661 (62.7)	9680 (58.2)	1037 (61.8)
Student	2599 (6.4)	378 (8.5)	548 (5.7)	83 (8.4)
Retired	9384 (26.0)	1009 (13.0)	7599 (23.6)	399 (12.8)
Unemployed/otherwise not working	5303 (12.0)	1422 (15.9)	2234 (12.5)	305 (17.0)
Long-term health condition/disability
Yes	13,062 (35.6)	1733 (23.1)	10,673 (45.1)	746 (33.0)
No	25,449 (64.4)	4744 (76.9)	9399 (54.9)	1079 (67.0)