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Table 1 Demographic and property characteristics of scheme beneficiaries

From: “It’s changed my life not to have the continual worry of being warm” – health and wellbeing impacts of a local fuel poverty programme: a mixed-methods evaluation

 

Scheme beneficiaries N = 149 (%)

Beneficiaries who completed pre and post WEMWBS N = 78 (%)

Beneficiaries who participated in the interview N = 23 (%)

Gendera

 Male

47 (32)

22 (28.6)

5 (21.7)

 Female

100 (68)

55 (71.4)

18 (78.3)

Ethnicitya

 White British

125 (96.9)

64 (97)

23 (100)

 Other

4 (3.2)

2 (3)

 

Employment status

 Employed full time

5 (3.4)

2 (2.6)

1 (4.3)

 Employed part time

6 (4.0)

2 (2.6)

0 (0)

 Unemployed

87 (58.4)

45 (57.7)

10 (43.5)

 Self-employed

2 (1.3)

2 (2.6)

1 (4.3)

 Retired

49 (32.9)

27 (34.6)

11 (47.8)

Property type

 Bungalow

8 (5.4)

7 (9)

(0)

 Flat/Maisonette

99 (66.4)

50 (64.1)

16 (69.6)

 House

42 (28.2)

21 (26.9)

7 (30.4)

Occupantsa

 1

82 (55.4)

45 (57.7)

18 (78.3)

 2

38 (25.7)

19 (24.4)

4 (17.4)

 3

16 (10.8)

6 (7.7)

0

 4

8 (5.4)

8 (10.3)

0

 5+

4 (2.7)

1 (4.3)

Tenure

 Owner occupier

58 (38.9)

32 (41)

15 (65.1)

 Privately rented

91 (61.1)

46 (59)

8 (34.8)

Detachment type

 Terraced

92 (61.7)

45 (57.7)

 End of terrace

15 (10.1)

10 (12.8)

 Semi-detached

26 (17.4)

14 (17.9)

 Detached

14 (9.4)

8 (10.3)

 Other

2 (1.3)

1 (1.3)

Number of storeys

 1

99 (66.4)

54 (69.2)

 2

35 (23.5)

19 (24.4)

 3

13 (8.7)

4 (5.1)

 4

2 (1.3)

1 (1.3)

Main fuel type

 Electric

43 (28.9)

25 (32.1)

2 (8.7)

 Gas

104 (69.8)

53 (67.9)

21 (91.3)

 Oil

2 (1.3)

0

No working boiler

103 (69.1)

53 (67.9)

Rooms with no heating

68 (45.6)

34 (43.6)

  1. Note. amissing data (N ranges for full sample from 129 to 148), − not measured in participants who took part in interviews. On occasions the percentages may not add up to 100% precisely due to the rounding up or down of decimal places