Table 11.14

Number of prescribed medicines taken, by age within minority ethnic group

 

Aged 16 and over								1999
Number of medicines taken	Age group
	Men				Women
	16-34	35-54	55 +	All men	16-34	35-54	55 +	All women
Observed %
Black Caribbean
0	86	72	29	62	81	60	17	58
1	6	10	19	12	8	19	17	14
2	5	10	19	11	6	12	26	13
3	2	3	19	8	3	5	13	6
4 or more	-	5	14	6	2	5	27	9
Mean number of drugs per person	0.2	0.7	1.8	0.9	0.4	0.8	2.7	1.1
Standard error	0.05	0.14	0.15	0.08	0.06	0.09	0.21	0.07
Indian
0	87	66	26	65	81	62	15	61
1	8	12	17	11	12	16	20	15
2	1	8	13	7	3	12	26	11
3	2	5	16	6	2	4	9	4
4 or more	2	9	28	10	2	6	30	8
Mean number of drugs per person	0.3	1.0	2.6	1.1	0.3	0.9	2.8	1.0
Standard error	0.08	0.14	0.28	0.10	0.06	0.12	0.27	0.08
Pakistani
0	88	67	25	72	78	45	[19]	63
1	8	11	17	10	13	23	[13]	16
2	3	12	15	8	6	11	[9]	8
3	0	4	17	4	2	6	[21]	5
4 or more	1	7	26	6	2	14	[38]	9
Mean number of drugs per person	0.2	0.8	2.4	0.7	0.4	1.4	[0.9]	0.9
Standard error	0.05	0.11	0.31	0.07	0.05	0.17	[0.08]	0.08
Bangladeshi
0	76	59	13	55	76	28	a	58
1	11	13	9	11	13	18	a	16
2	5	14	13	10	7	20	a	12
3	2	8	15	7	4	15	a	8
4 or more	5	6	51	17	1	19	a	6
Mean number of drugs per person	0.5	0.9	4.0	1.5	0.4	2.0	a	1.0
Standard error	0.10	0.16	0.36	0.14	0.06	0.21	a	0.08
Chinese
0	91	81	[43]	77	86	73	[38]	71
1	8	13	[25]	14	8	17	[28]	16
2	1	4	[11]	5	2	6	[14]	6
3	-	-	[10]	2	1	4	[9]	4
4 or more	-	2	[11]	3	3	0	[11]	2
Mean number of drugs per person	0.1	0.3	1.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	[0.5]	0.5
Standard error	0.04	0.08	0.29	0.08	0.10	0.07	[0.07]	0.07
Irish
0	83	69	37	63	71	53	32	53
1	9	18	11	14	15	23	23	21
2	6	7	12	8	10	10	14	11
3	1	3	12	5	3	7	13	8
4 or more	1	3	27	10	0	7	19	8
Mean number of drugs per person	0.3	0.6	2.2	1.0	0.5	1.1	2.2	1.2
Standard error	0.08	0.08	0.21	0.08	0.07	0.12	0.23	0.09
General population (1998)b
0	82	70	34	61	74	58	24	51
1	11	15	19	15	12	20	21	18
2	4	7	15	9	8	10	18	12
3	1	3	10	5	4	5	13	7
4 or more	1	5	21	9	2	6	24	11
Mean number of drugs per person	0.3	0.6	2.0	1.0	0.5	0.9	2.3	1.3
Standard error	0.02	0.03	0.05	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.05	0.02
Bases (weighted):
Black Caribbean	101	62	94	257	136	146	84	366
Indian	161	203	93	458	179	194	77	451
Pakistani	114	86	30	231	156	76	21	253
Bangladeshi	34	20	19	74	50	20	8	77
Chinese	19	31	12	62	22	49	11	81
Irish	277	593	349	1218	474	730	435	1639
General population	b	b	b	b	b	b	b	b
Bases (unweighted):
Black Caribbean	142	92	137	371	204	216	121	541
Indian	166	214	96	476	191	210	82	483
Pakistani	192	149	50	391	268	132	38	438
Bangladeshi	133	79	69	281	201	85	29	315
Chinese	62	94	41	197	67	151	37	255
Irish	92	191	130	413	164	239	161	564
General population	1830	2267	2067	6164	2228	2653	2539	7420

^a Results not shown because of small bases.

^b Comparative data for the general population are not available on this topic from the 1999 survey and have therefore been taken from the 1998 survey. No weighting was involved in the 1998 data.

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