White (n = 200) | Indian (n = 235) | Pakistani (n = 164) | Bangladeshi (n = 63) | Caribbean (n = 130) | African (n = 107) | Chinese (n = 51) | |
Age (years) | |||||||
16–24 | 10 | 20* | 23* | 29* | 22* | 20* | 24* |
25–34 | 29 | 29 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 30 | 18 |
35–44 | 25 | 26 | 34 | 25 | 22 | 35 | 43* |
45–54 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 16 |
55+ | 21 | 15 | 10* | 6* | 17 | 7* | 0* |
Marital status | |||||||
Married/cohabitating | 73 | 63* | 71 | 78 | 52* | 62 | 71 |
Single | 21 | 25 | 25 | 8* | 42* | 34* | 22 |
Divorced/separated/widowed | 7 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
Socioeconomic class | |||||||
AB Managerial/professional | 15 | 18 | 7* | 21 | 7 | 6* | 8 |
C1 Supervisory | 18 | 27* | 28* | 21 | 22 | 22 | 28 |
C2 Skilled manual | 29 | 27 | 35 | 30 | 29 | 19 | 31 |
D Semi-skilled/unskilled manual | 22 | 16 | 14 | 18 | 28 | 29 | 14 |
E State pensioners/unemployed | 17 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 24 | 20 |
Religion | |||||||
Christian | 64 | 9* | 0.0* | 0* | 76* | 36* | 8* |
Hindu | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sikh | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Muslim | 0 | 18 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 64 | 0 |
Other | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
None | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 53 |
Language | |||||||
English | 100 | 57* | 51* | 67* | 100 | 38* | 27.5* |
Punjabi | 0 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hindi | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gujarati | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Urdu | 0 | 5 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bangla | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mandarin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 |
Somali | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 0 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
Generational status | |||||||
Second generation | 94 | 26* | 15* | 6* | 35* | 24* | 28* |
First generation | 6 | 32 | 54 | 48 | 29 | 36 | 33 |
Immigrant | 0 | 43 | 32 | 46 | 35 | 40 | 39 |
Bold type represents when a 2×2 χ2 was used to analyse the difference in that ethnic group compared with the white British group. Where figures are not in bold type, it was not possible to compute χ2 results because more than 20% of cells in the analysis had a count of less than 5.
*p<0.05.