Table 1.
Characteristics of survey respondents and representativeness of samples.
| United Kingdom | Survey respondents |
Difference 2019–2020 | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2020 | |||||
| Totals | 61′371′315 | 1′653 | 1′194 | |||
| North Easta | 2′596′886 | 4% | 5% | 4% | 0.55% | 0.4781 |
| North Westa | 7′052′177 | 11% | 10% | 10% | 0.56% | 0.6243 |
| Yorkshire and the Humbera | 5′283′733 | 9% | 9% | 8% | 0.72% | 0.5001 |
| East Midlandsa | 4′533′222 | 7% | 9% | 10% | −0.97% | 0.3796 |
| West Midlandsa | 5′601′847 | 9% | 8% | 8% | 0.34% | 0.7396 |
| East of Englanda | 5′846′965 | 10% | 12% | 12% | −0.74% | 0.5481 |
| Londona | 8′173′941 | 13% | 11% | 10% | 0.60% | 0.6067 |
| South Easta | 8′634′750 | 14% | 12% | 13% | −0.69% | 0.5878 |
| South Westa | 5′288′935 | 9% | 10% | 11% | −0.81% | 0.4878 |
| Walesa | 3′063′456 | 5% | 6% | 5% | 0.40% | 0.6427 |
| Scotlanda | 5′295′403 | 9% | 9% | 9% | 0.04% | 0.9715 |
| Mena | 30′140′820 | 49% | 44% | 46% | −1.64% | 0.3849 |
| Womena | 31′230′495 | 51% | 56% | 54% | 1.64% | 0.3849 |
| 18-34 y.o.a | 13′961′474 | 29% | 25% | 20% | 5.00% | 0.0016 |
| 35-54 y.o.a | 17′054′980 | 35% | 33% | 34% | −0.59% | 0.7411 |
| 55+ y.o.a | 17′341′897 | 36% | 42% | 47% | −4.41% | 0.0194 |
| High social classb,c | 21′381′588 | 57% | 59% | 59% | 0.01% | 0.9945 |
| Low social classb,c | 16′389′669 | 43% | 41% | 41% | −0.01% | 0.9945 |
| Education: entry levelb | 14′701′183 | 31% | 29% | 30% | −0.82% | 0.6441 |
| Education: some qualificationb | 9′548′605 | 27% | 30% | 31% | −0.59% | 0.7419 |
| Education: universityb | 11′059′503 | 42% | 41% | 40% | 1.41% | 0.4619 |
Notes: Col. 1 and 2 report totals and shares for the United Kingdom. Col. 3 reports characteristics of respondents to the 6–7 October 2019 survey. Col. 4 the characteristics of respondents on 9–16 April 2020. Every respondent in April 2020 completed the previous survey. Col. 5 reports the difference between col. 3 and col. 4. Col. 6 reports the p-value of a test that this number is different from 0, showing absence of differential attrition for all but 1 variable (age).
2011 Population Census.
2014 Integrated Household Survey; total numbers represent sum of weights.
Social class is National Statistics Socio-economic Classification for the United kingdom and NRS social grade for the samples. High social class is 1–4 in NSSEC and A-C1 in NRS.