Measuring behaviours for escaping from house fires: use of latent variable models to summarise multiple behaviours

Table 1 Characteristics of participants

	n	%
Number of smokers in household
0	759	70.1
1	226	20.9
2	97	8.0
Number of adults in household
1	192	18.0
2	810	75.8
3 or more	67	6.2
Number of children in household
1	542	50.6
2	351	32.8
3	121	11.3
4 or more	57	5.3
Age of youngest child
Under 1 year	484	44.5
1–2 years	603	55.5
Mother aged 16–20
Yes	54	5.1
No	1006	94.9
Heavy drinker in household^a
Yes	592	58.5
No	420	41.5
English as 1st language
Yes	1004	91.3
No	96	8.7
Ethnic group
White British	952	89.6
Other	111	11.4
IMD score^b
Mean	31.73
Std deviation	16.64
Minimum	2.36
Maximum	74.8

Not applicable and missing responses are excluded for all variables
^aHeavy drinker defined as drinks ≥6 drinks on a typical day when they have an alcoholic drink
^bIMD—Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 version [27]

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