Health Survey for England - The Health of Minority Ethnic Groups '99

Table 11.4

(NHS) GP consultations in the two weeks before interview and annual contact rate per person, by equivalised household income tertile within minority ethnic group

Aged 16 and over
          1999
Consulting GP on own behalf
Equivalised household income tertile
     
Men
    
Women
    
Lowest Middle Highest Lowest Middle Highest
Observed
            
Black Caribbean
% consulting a GP in past two weeks 17 22 12 27 22 16
Annual contact rate per persona 5.4 6.7 4.0 8.4 6.7 4.6
Standard error 1.21 1.07 0.85 1.17 0.97 0.70
Indian
% consulting a GP in past two weeks 17 21 16 32 22 17
Annual contact rate per persona 5.0 7.5 5.4 11.6 7.1 5.4
Standard error 1.34 1.25 0.92 2.42 1.10 0.94
Pakistani
% consulting a GP in past two weeks 20 13 6 23 27 9
Annual contact rate per persona 6.6 4.2 1.9 8.6 8.9 2.3
Standard error 1.12 0.89 0.73 1.30 1.32 0.76
Bangladeshi
% consulting a GP in past two weeks 24 19 b 20 25 b
Annual contact rate per persona 7.7 6.4 b 6.6 7.0 b
Standard error 1.07 1.53 b 0.84 1.27 b
Chinese
% consulting a GP in past two weeks 9 10 4 25 13 14
Annual contact rate per persona 5.2 2.5 1.1 8.3 3.9 3.9
Standard error 2.55 0.85 0.55 2.10 1.13 0.93
Irish
% consulting a GP in past two weeks [11] 15 8 27 21 18
Annual contact rate per persona [2.8] 4.7 2.7 9.2 7.0 6.1
Standard error [1.38] 1.03 0.57 2.25 1.15 0.81
General population
% consulting a GP in past two weeks 19 15 10 24 19 17
Annual contact rate per persona 5.7 4.6 3.0 7.6 6.0 5.0
Standard error 0.84 0.40 0.23 0.83 0.40 0.27
Standardised ratio of means            
Annual contact rate per persona
Black Caribbean 1.55 1.63 1.26 1.51 1.15 0.86
Standard error 0.44 0.32 0.27 0.22 0.19 0.14
Indian 1.56 2.09 1.53 2.06 1.30 1.13
Standard error 0.41 0.41 0.25 0.44 0.21 0.21
Pakistani 2.40 1.41 0.53 1.94 1.79 0.35
Standard error 0.43 0.32 0.23 0.28 0.26 0.12
Bangladeshi 2.46 1.95 b 1.32 1.64 b
Standard error 0.34 0.46 b 0.19 0.31 b
Chinese 1.81 0.73 0.29 1.33 0.70 0.60
Standard error 0.91 0.25 0.16 0.32 0.20 0.19
Irish [0.95] 1.41 0.87 1.73 1.33 1.19
Standard error [0.43] 0.39 0.21 0.45 0.30 0.17
General population 1.72 1.15 0.86 1.37 1.11 0.91
Standard error 0.28 0.13 0.08 0.16 0.10 0.06
Bases (weighted):
Black Caribbean 75 106 132 115 136 176
Indian 89 166 193 95 183 188
Pakistani 103 97 61 117 91 55
Bangladeshi 69 25 8 72 25 5
Chinese 18 27 30 21 29 34
Irish 100 418 827 208 563 989
General population 2681 11139 23746 4296 14643 25462
Bases (unweighted):
Black Caribbean 106 160 201 172 210 258
Indian 86 165 228 97 183 231
Pakistani 189 176 95 216 164 89
Bangladeshi 278 97 22 305 96 15
Chinese 62 83 94 69 87 112
Irish 39 139 284 84 189 351
General population 235 924 1914 375 1207 2044


a Annualised by multiplying mean rate for all informants in the past two weeks by 26. Based on total sample, not on those consulting.

b Results not shown because of small bases.

 

 

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