Demographic characteristics of participants in Studies 2 and 3 (total n=52)
| Study 2 – focus groups | Study 3 – interviews | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Demographic characteristic | Polish (n=4) | Polish (n=8) | Polish (n=6) | Romanian (n=9) | Slovak (n=5) | Total (n=32) | (n=20) |
| Country of origin | |||||||
| Poland | 4 | 8 | 6 | – | – | 18 | 11 |
| Romania | – | – | – | 9 | – | 9 | 2 |
| Slovakia | – | – | – | – | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Age (years) | |||||||
| 20–29 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5* | 13 | 7 |
| 30–39 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 10 |
| 40–49 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 50+ | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Time in UK (years) | |||||||
| 1–2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 6 |
| 3–4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| 5–9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 10–19 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 20+ | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Employment status | |||||||
| Full-time | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 |
| Part-time | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| Homemaker | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Self-employed | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 7 |
| Unemployed | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Student | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Missing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Relationship status | |||||||
| Single | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 5 |
| Married/cohabiting | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 |
| Divorced | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Widowed | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Missing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Has children | |||||||
| Yes | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 |
| No | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 14 |
| Registered with GP | |||||||
| Yes | 4 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 29 | 18 |
| No | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
↵* The authors had difficulty accessing Slovak women and all those who took part in the focus group were aged in their twenties.
GP, general practitioner.