Publication - Statistics

Scottish Health Survey - topic report: equality groups

Published: 30 October 2012
Part of: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781782561781

Topic report in the Scottish Health Survey series providing breakdowns of key health behaviours and outcomes by gender, age, ethnic group, religion, disability and sexual orientation.

Scottish Health Survey

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Table 3.2 Experience of Toothache in the last month (age-standardised¹), by equality group

Equality Group	Experienced toothache	Lower Confidence Limit	Upper Confidence Limit	*Unweighted Bases*	*Weighted Bases*
Aged 16 and over				2008-2011 combined
Equality Group	%	%	%	*Unweighted Bases*	*Weighted Bases*
Sex
Male	13	13	14	10920	12475
Female	13	13	14	13797	13029
Age
16-24	18	17	20	2538	3989
25-34	16	15	18	3673	4376
35-44	14	13	16	4739	4910
45-54	13	12	15	4945	4920
55-64	11	10	12	4286	3784
65-74	9	8	10	2909	2222
75+	7	6	9	1627	1305
Sexual Orientation
Bisexual	17	11	24	197	213
Gay or Lesbian	15	9	22	188	195
Heterosexual	14	13	14	21233	21972
Other	15	7	22	210	209
Prefer not to answer	12	8	16	500	463
Disability
Limiting LI	19	18	21	6431	5942
Non-limiting LI	14	13	16	3892	3890
No LI	11	11	12	14389	15669
Religion
None	14	13	14	10312	11061
Church of Scotland	13	12	14	7934	7619
Roman Catholic	13	12	14	3282	3763
Other Christian	15	13	17	2426	2209
Muslim	18	11	24	217	278
Buddhist	18	7	29	63	65
Hindu	13	3	23	59	70
Other²	17	12	22	377	357
Ethnic Group
White, British	13	13	14	23054	23596
White, Irish	8	4	12	158	185
White, Other	16	12	20	754	789
Mixed	8	2	14	86	102
Asian, Indian	14	7	22	108	147
Asian, Pakistani	24	14	34	137	174
Asian, Chinese	14	3	25	74	82
Asian, Other	14	6	23	101	103
African, Caribbean or Black	16	4	28	114	124
Other	11	5	18	103	112
All Adults	13	13	14	24717	25505

¹ Analyses are age-standardised for all equality groups except age.
² Other religion includes Sikh, Jewish and Pagan.

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