Table 1.
Participant characteristics at baseline
| No participants (%) | ||
| Sex | Male | 5106 (30.2) |
| Female | 11 804 (69.8) | |
| Working age | Yes (16 to 65) | 10 338 (61.1) |
| No | 6570 (38.9) | |
| Ethnicity | Minority ethnic | 894 (5.3) |
| White | 16 015 (94.7) | |
| Country | Scotland | 1029 (6.1) |
| Wales | 604 (3.6) | |
| Northern Ireland | 314 (1.9) | |
| England | 14 956 (88.4) | |
| IMD quartile | 1 (most deprived) | 3990 (23.6) |
| 2 | 4191 (24.8) | |
| 3 | 4299 (25.4) | |
| 4 (least deprived) | 4410 (26.1) | |
| Claiming universal credit | Yes | 464 (2.7) |
| No | 16 390 (96.9) | |
| Occupation | Self-employed | 1554 (9.2) |
| Retired | 7547 (44.6) | |
| Furloughed | 386 (2.3) | |
| Unemployed | 296 (1.8) | |
| Student | 345 (2.0) | |
| Other | 394 (2.3) | |
| Never employed | 10 (0.01) | |
| Not working due to sickness | 281 (1.7) | |
| Employed | 6097 (36.1) | |
| Housing | Mortgage | 4250 (25.1) |
| Private renting | 1227 (7.3) | |
| Renting council | 531 (3.1) | |
| Other | 724 (4.3) | |
| Owns home | 10 174 (60.2) | |
| Self-reported general health | Poor | 480 (2.8) |
| Fair | 1808 (10.7) | |
| Good | 4537 (26.8) | |
| Very good | 6691 (39.6) | |
| Excellent | 3394 (20.1) | |
| Income sufficient to cover basic needs | Yes | 15 749 (93.1) |
| Mostly | 617 (3.6) | |
| Sometimes | 147 (0.9) | |
| No | 396 (2.3) | |
1 Missing data: working age (N=2, 0.01%), ethnicity (N=1, <0.01%), country (N=7, 0.04%), IMD quartile (N=20, 0.12%), housing (N=4, 0.02%), universal credit (N=56, 0.3%), income sufficient (N=1, <0.01%).
IMD, Index of Multiple Deprivation.