Social class, ethnicity and age of parents giving informed consent to the Total Body Hypothermia trial
| Social class* | Number of parents | Ethnicity† | Age (years) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mother | Father | Mother | Father | ||||
| *Based on Office of National Statistics Classification (www.statistics.gov.uk; accessed 30 May 2005). | |||||||
| †Based on Office of National Statistics Classification (www.statistics.gov.uk; accessed 30 May 2005). Ethnic groups not represented were mixed, Indian, Bangladeshi, other Asian, other Black, Chinese and other ethnic. | |||||||
| 1: Higher managerial and professional | 1 | White, UK | 24 | 19 | 16–19 | 1 | 0 |
| 2: Lower managerial and professional | 8 | White, other | 2 | 6 | 20–29 | 9 | 5 |
| 3: Intermediate occupations | 3 | Pakistani | 1 | 1 | 30–39 | 18 | 17 |
| 4: Small employers and own account workers | 2 | Black, Caribbean | 1 | 0 | >40 | 1 | 5 |
| 5: Lower supervisory and technical | 5 | Black, African | 2 | 3 | Not known | 1 | 3 |
| 6: Semiroutine occupations | 2 | Not known | 0 | 1 | Total number | 30 | 30 |
| 7: Routine occupations | 5 | Total number | 30 | 30 | |||
| 8: Never worked/long-term unemployed | 3 | ||||||
| Not known | 1 | ||||||
| Total number | 30 | ||||||