Table 1

Weighted demographic profile of respondents by deprivation group and survey wave

	2002					2004
	NDC intervention areas	NDC comparator areas	HSE high dep	HSE med dep	HSE low dep	NDC intervention areas	NDC comparator areas	HSE high dep	HSE med dep	HSE low dep
Characteristic	n=19 574	n=2014	n=3633	n=1389	n=2372	n=17 643	n=3603	n=2482	n=1188	n=3034
	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent
Sex
Male	48.6	45.7	45.9	44.1	45.9	47.5	47.2	47.3	48.7	49.9
Age (years); mean	42.3	44.6	49.3	50.5	51.7	44.3	45.6	44.4	45.8	48.0
Ethnicity
White	75.5	77.1	89.6	96.8	96.9	74.7	78.4	86.5	92.5	95.2
Asian	11.7	14.0	5.7	1.7	1.7	12.7	12.4	6.9	2.8	1.0
Black	11.4	8.1	3.6	0.7	0.7	11.2	8.2	5.5	4.4	3.5
Other	1.4	0.8	1.2	0.8	0.7	1.4	1.0	1.2	0.2	0.3
	2006					2008
	NDC intervention areas	NDC comparator areas	HSE high dep	HSE med dep	HSE low dep	NDC intervention areas	NDC comparator areas	HSE high dep	HSE med dep	HSE low dep
Characteristic	n=13 072	n=2561	n=2624	n=1523	n=2885	n=12 080	n=2428	n=5732	n=3010	n=6360
Characteristic	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent
Sex
Male	46.9	47.3	49.4	49.3	47.1	47.0	48.1	48.8	49.0	48.8
Age (years); mean	45.5	46.7	43.2	46.8	48.3	46.4	48.0	43.6	46.8	48.6
Ethnicity
White	73.9	76.4	82.1	93.5	94.5	73.9	77.1	81.4	91.6	94.9
Asian	13.1	14.8	11.3	4.1	4.4	13.0	13.8	11.1	5.1	3.5
Black	11.6	8.4	5.5	1.5	0.5	11.8	8.4	5.9	2.1	1.1
Other	1.4	0.5	1.1	0.9	0.7	1.3	0.7	1.6	1.3	0.5

dep, deprivation; HSE, Health Survey for England; med, medium; NDC, New Deal for Communities.