Table 1: The Demographic Data and Health-Related Measures for the CFS and Control Samples. Scores are the Group Means with s.e.m in Parenthesis, or Expressed as Percentages

CFS (N=307) Controls (N=126) F (or χ2), df, p
Demographic Data:
Male: Female (ratio) 30:70 34:66 n/s
Age (years) 42.09 (0.67) 40.88 (1.18) n/s
Marital Status Married (%) 64.6 50.8 n/s
Educational Status: Degree level (%) 17.3 16.7 n/s
Employment Status: Employed (%) 32.4 50.0 24.34, 5, 0.001
Social Classification: Skilled manual (%) 6.6 13.2 11.69, 5, 0.039
NART (errors) 14.72 (0.51) 12.48 (0.71) 5.93, 1 430, 0.015
Health-related Behaviours:
Medication (yes)
Multi-Vitamins (yes)		 61.3
51.0		 27.0
23.0		 41.80, 1, 0.001
28.43, 1, 0.001
Average Sleep (hours) 7.61 (0.11) 7.30 (0.09) n/s
Rested by Sleep (never) 18 1 126.00, 4, 0.001
Eating Well (yes)
Drink Alcohol (no)
Smoker (no)
Exercise (never)		 69.8
23.2
81.8
47.4		 65.6
9.6
67.5
19.7		 n/s
29.81, 3, 0.001
10.49, 1, 0.001
52.68, 1, 0.001