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Table 4 Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents in the adult household survey; based on multiply imputed dataset

From: The Well London program - a cluster randomized trial of community engagement for improving health behaviors and mental wellbeing: baseline survey results

 

Control (n = 2046)

Intervention (n = 2061)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

Mean age in years

38.4 (36.6, 40.2)

38.0 (36.4, 39.5)

Gender % Female

52.7 (49.2, 56.2)

57.5 (54.6, 60.6)

Ethnicity %

  

 White British

28.9 (22.0, 35.7)

33.2 (25.5, 40.9)

 White other

14.0 (9.8, 18.2)

12.6 (8.9, 14.2)

 Black Caribbean

12.1 (8.2, 15.9)

11.4 (8.7, 14.2)

 Black African

18.0 (12.2, 23.7)

15.6 (11.3, 19.8)

 Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi

11.6 (4.7, 18.5)

9.3 (2.1, 16.5)

 Other Asian

4.6 (2.1, 7.0)

4.3 (2.6, 6.1)

 Mixed

4.5 (3.3, 5.6)

5.0 (3.2, 6.8)

 Other

6.5 (4.1, 8.9)

8.6 (4.2, 12.9)

Marital status

  

 Never married

45.2 (41.6, 48.8)

43.9 (39.7, 48.2)

 Married/cohabit

42.5 (38.0, 47.1))

41.9 (36.2, 47.7)

 Separated

3.4 (2.3, 4.4)

3.1 (2.1, 4.2)

 Divorced

5.2 (3.8, 6.6)

6.3 (4.6, 8.0)

 Widowed

3.7 (2.6, 4.9)

4.7 (3.5, 5.9)

Mean duration of residence in the LSOA

16.8 (14.9, 18.7)

17.5 (15.7, 19.3)

Level of educational attainment

  

 No formal qualifications

8.8 (4.1, 13.5)

11.8 (7.5, 16.1)

 GCSE or equivalent

32.2 (27.5, 37.0)

32.9 (27.4, 38.5)

 A-level or equivalent

29.3 (26.0, 32.6)

27.8 (23.9, 31.5)

 University degree

28.5 (23.2, 33.9)

26.7 (21.7, 31.8)

 Other

1.1 (0.1, 2.2)

0.8 (0.1, 1.5)

Housing tenure

  

 Owner occupier

15.1 (11.8, 18.4)

12.3 (8.5, 16.1)

 Rent/mortgage

1.2 (0.2, 2.2)

1.7 (0.5, 2.8)

 Rent – social housing

51.5 (41.5, 61.5)

55.7 (45.5, 65.9)

 Rent – private landlord

14.0 (9.5, 18.4)

12.0 (7.1, 17.0)

 Other

18.3 (10.3, 26.3)

18.3 (11.1, 25.4)

Employed full or part time %

42.2 (37.1, 47.3)

42.8 (38.3, 47.3)

Ease of managing on household income

  

 Very easy

3.5 (2.2, 4.9)

2.9 (1.7, 4.0)

 Fairly easy

18.3 (15.1, 21.5)

15.9 (11.5, 20.2)

 Neither easy nor difficult

29.8 (22.9, 36.8)

28.0 (21.2, 34.8)

 Fairly difficult

25.0 (19.9, 30.0)

28.2 (22.0, 34.4)

 Very difficult

23.3 (16.9, 29.7)

25.0 (17.9, 32.2)

  1. Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval.