Table 2.4

Longstanding illness and limiting longstanding illness, by equivalised household income tertile within minority ethnic group

Aged 16 and over						1999
Longstanding illness and limiting longstanding illness	Equivalised household income tertile
	Men			Women
	Lowest	Middle	Highest	Lowest	Middle	Highest
Observed %
Black Caribbean
Longstanding illness	57	57	28	46	47	41
Limiting longstanding illness	37	35	11	32	30	21
Indian
Longstanding illness	33	37	32	34	41	33
Limiting longstanding illness	24	26	17	31	29	16
Pakistani
Longstanding illness	35	31	26	34	36	28
Limiting longstanding illness	25	22	15	24	29	12
Bangladeshi
Longstanding illness	41	40	a	28	32	a
Limiting longstanding illness	35	34	a	22	22	a
Chinese
Longstanding illness	32	29	18	32	27	25
Limiting longstanding illness	19	18	7	21	17	8
Irish
Longstanding illness	[49]	51	44	61	54	38
Limiting longstanding illness	[37]	35	21	39	36	21
General population
Longstanding illness	51	57	39	47	54	39
Limiting longstanding illness	35	38	18	32	35	21
Standardised risk ratios
Longstanding illness
Black Caribbean	1.41	1.36	0.73	1.12	1.02	1.06
Standard error	0.13	0.12	0.08	0.09	0.08	0.08
Indian	0.83	0.80	0.84	0.81	1.06	0.89
Standard error	0.12	0.08	0.08	0.11	0.08	0.08
Pakistani	1.01	0.88	0.72	1.03	1.09	0.84
Standard error	0.09	0.09	0.12	0.09	0.09	0.13
Bangladeshi	1.09	1.10	a	0.87	1.15	a
Standard error	0.07	0.12	a	0.08	0.13	a
Chinese	0.78	0.67	0.45	0.74	0.65	0.54
Standard error	0.15	0.11	0.11	0.14	0.10	0.11
Irish	[1.22]	1.29	1.06	1.44	1.19	0.92
Standard error	[0.19]	0.13	0.08	0.13	0.10	0.07
General population	1.20	1.16	0.91	1.09	1.11	0.93
Standard error	0.08	0.05	0.03	0.06	0.04	0.03
Standardised risk ratios
Limiting longstanding illness
Black Caribbean	1.68	1.44	0.51	1.32	1.08	0.99
Standard error	0.24	0.19	0.10	0.15	0.12	0.12
Indian	1.12	1.04	0.78	1.26	1.31	0.77
Standard error	0.20	0.13	0.12	0.18	0.12	0.12
Pakistani	1.37	1.18	0.82	1.31	1.53	0.65
Standard error	0.16	0.16	0.20	0.16	0.17	0.20
Bangladeshi	1.73	1.73	a	1.26	1.42	a
Standard error	0.14	0.21	a	0.14	0.24	a
Chinese	0.89	0.79	0.36	0.79	0.74	0.42
Standard error	0.24	0.19	0.15	0.18	0.17	0.14
Irish	[1.68]	1.59	0.98	1.58	1.23	0.85
Standard error	[0.29]	0.23	0.12	0.22	0.14	0.10
General population	1.55	1.39	0.78	1.28	1.20	0.85
Standard error	0.15	0.09	0.05	0.10	0.07	0.04
Bases (weighted):
Black Caribbean	76	106	131	115	136	176
Indian	89	166	193	95	183	188
Pakistani	103	97	61	117	92	55
Bangladeshi	69	25	8	72	25	5
Chinese	18	27	30	21	29	34
Irish	100	419	827	208	563	989
General population	2681	11139	23759	4296	14643	25462
Bases (unweighted):
Black Caribbean	107	160	200	172	210	258
Indian	87	165	227	97	183	231
Pakistani	189	176	95	216	165	89
Bangladeshi	278	97	22	305	96	15
Chinese	62	83	94	69	87	112
Irish	39	140	284	84	189	351
General population	235	924	1915	375	1207	2044

^a The sample base for these categories is too small for the results to be shown.

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