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Table 1 Descriptive demographics of the longitudinal student sample for those answering the first term only (N = 311) and those answering all time points (N = 215)

From: Freshman 15 in England: a longitudinal evaluation of first year university student’s weight change

 

First term only

All time points

Total n

311

215

Sex, n (%)

 Male

88 (28.3)

64 (29.7)

 Female

223 (71.7)

151 (70.2)

Date of birth, n (%)

 1995

129 (41.5)

98 (45.6)

 1996

178 (57.2)

115 (53.5)

 1997

4 (1.3)

2 (0.92)

Origin, n (%)

 England

253 (83.5)

180 (86.5)

 Wales/Scotland/NI

11 (3.6)

10 (4.8)

 European Union

27 (8.9)

13 (6.3)

 Outside EU

12 (4.0)

5 (2.4)

 NA

7 (2.3)

7 (0.32)

Ethnicity, n (%)

 White

267 (85.9)

188 (87.4)

 Mixed

7 (2.3)

4 (1.87)

 Asian/Asian British

30 (9.7)

18 (8.41)

 Black: African/Caribbean/British

4 (1.29)

2 (0.93)

 Arab

3 (1.00)

3 (1.40)