Health and Employment after Fifty (HEAF): a new prospective cohort study

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Table 6 Recruitment and response rates at baseline by practice deprivation score

Decile of deprivation^a	Practices (N)	Subjects				% of all participants
		No. excluded	No. approached	No. recruited	% recruited
1 (worst)	2	77	2208	297	13.5 %	3.6 %
2	1	47	1830	322	17.6 %	4.0 %
3	0	0	0	0	0 %	0 %
4	1	66	1102	265	24.0 %	3.3 %
5	4	81	3944	673	17.1 %	8.3 %
6	5	389	11,940	2432	20.4 %	29.9 %
7	3	98	6080	1334	21.9 %	16.4 %
8	4	117	4761	1136	23.9 %	14.0 %
9	3	89	4879	1112	22.8 %	13.7 %
10 (best)	1	33	2615	563	21.5 %	6.9 %
All	24	997	39,359	8134	20.7 %	100.0 %

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