Table 1.

Characteristics of survey responders (all data self-reported)

Variablea		Number	% (of N for variable)
Age in years, mean (SD)		75 (8.6)
Age category in years N = 827 Missing n = 8 (1.0%)	55–59	40	4.8
	60–64	58	7.0
	65–69	125	15.1
	70–74	175	21.2
	75–79	173	20.9
	80–84	136	16.4
	85–89	83	10.0
	90–94	34	4.1
	≥95	3	0.4
Sex N = 829 Missing n = 6 (0.7%)	Male	376	45.4
	Female	453	54.6
Ethnicity N = 829 Missing n = 6 (0.7%)	White	822	99.2
	Other than whiteb	7	0.8
Marital status N = 826 Missing n = 9 (1.1%)	Married or in a partnership	520	63.0
	Widowed	180	21.8
	Divorced or dissolved partnership	94	11.4
	Singlec	32	3.9
Living situation N = 827 Missing n = 8 (1.0%)	Cohabitingd	565	68.3
	Lives alone	262	31.7
Home ownership N = 825 Missing n = 10 (1.2%)	Home ownere	654	79.3
	Non-home owner	171	20.7
Employment status N = 827 Missing n = 8 (1.0%)	Retired	716	86.6
	Employed (full/part time)	67	8.1
	Unemployed	22	2.7
	Other	22	2.7
Smoking status N = 826 Missing n = 9 (1.1%)	Current smoker	44	5.3
	Ex-smoker	440	53.3
	Never smoked	342	41.4
Number of long-term conditionsf N = 824 Missing n = 11 (1.3%)	0	7	0.8
	1	95	11.5
	2	223	27.1
	3	255	30.9
	4	138	16.7
	5	69	8.4
	≥6	37	4.5
Medications prescribed (number on repeat) N = 826 Missing n = 9 (1.1%)	0–3	130	15.7
	4–6	315	38.1
	7–9	204	24.7
	10–14	131	15.9
	≥15	46	5.6
Treatment burden category (Measure: MTBQ) N = 833 Missing n = 2 (0.2%)	High	150	18.0
	Medium	224	26.9
	Low	268	32.2
	None	191	22.9
Health literacy (frequency of needing reading help) (Measure: SILS) N = 830 Missing n = 5 (0.6%)	Never	554	66.7
	Rarely	137	16.5
	Sometimes	73	8.8
	Often	34	4.1
	Always	32	3.9
Financial difficulty with health care N = 828 Missing n = 7 (0.8%)	Not difficult or n/a	609	73.6
	A little	146	17.6
	Quite	44	5.3
	Very	24	2.9
	Extreme	5	0.6
Travel time to hospital N = 760 Missing or n/a, n = 75 (9.0%)	≤1 hour	707	93.0
	>1 hour	53	7.0
Travel time to GP N = 826 Missing n = 9 (1.1%)	≤10 minutes	505	61.1
	>10 minutes	321	38.9
Number of outpatient appointments in last 6 months N = 761 Missing n = 74 (8.9%)	0–2	605	79.5
	≥3	156	20.5
Number of GP appointments in last 6 months N = 724 Missing n = 111 (13.3%)	0–2	466	64.4
	≥3	258	35.6

^aMissing percentages are based on overall survey responder denominator of 835.

^b’Other than white’ ethnicity comprises categories of ‘Mixed/multiple ethnic groups’, ‘Asian/Asian British’, ‘Black/African/Caribbean/black British’, or ‘Other ethnic group’, combined.

^cSingle means never married or in a civil partnership.

^dCohabiting means living with any of spouse/partner, child(ren), or other person.

^eHome owner means owning or jointly owning one’s current home, including having a mortgage.

^fFor number of long-term conditions (LTCs): if responders had not ticked any LTC survey tick-box and not provided LTC freetext in the survey, LTC data are considered missing; if responders had not ticked any LTC tick-box but had provided some freetext (that did not itself indicate a survey-specified LTC), their LTC count is considered 0. MTBQ = Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire. n/a = not applicable. p’ship = civil partnership. SILS = Single Item Literacy Screener.