Publication - Statistics

Scottish Health Survey 2018: main report - revised 2020

Published: 21 February 2020
From: Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
Part of: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781839605550

An amended version of the Scottish Health Survey 2018 main report.

Scottish Health Survey

Supporting documents

Table 1.4: GHQ12 score, 2003 to 2018

Base: Aged 16 and over		2003 - 2018
GHQ12 Score^a		2003	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
GHQ12 Score^a		%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Men	Score 0	67	64	65	65	65	66	64	65	63	65	62	55
	Score 1-3	20	23	23	22	23	22	23	20	22	22	23	27
	Score 4+	13	12	11	13	13	13	13	14	14	13	15	18
Women	Score 0	61	58	58	57	57	59	56	56	58	58	58	50
	Score 1-3	23	25	25	25	26	24	26	27	25	25	24	29
	Score 4+	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	17	17	17	18	21
All adults	Score 0	64	61	62	61	60	62	60	61	60	61	60	53
	Score 1-3	21	24	24	24	25	23	24	24	24	23	23	28
	Score 4+	15	15	14	15	15	15	16	16	16	15	17	19
Unweighted base	Men	3380	2569	3007	2849	2904	1915	1939	1864	1992	1710	1398	1853
	Women	4285	3301	3893	3823	3867	2436	2555	2382	2483	2209	1837	2468
	All adults	7665	5870	6900	6672	6771	4351	4494	4246	4475	3919	3235	4321
Weighted base	Men	3614	2819	3301	3177	3196	2073	2105	2015	2151	1865	1564	2073
	Women	4057	3079	3589	3498	3559	2257	2343	2211	2356	2039	1668	2250
	All adults	7672	5898	6890	6674	6755	4329	4448	4226	4507	3904	3232	4322

a GHQ12 scores range from 0 to 12. Scores of 4 or more indicate low wellbeing / possible psychiatric disorder.

Contact

Email: scottish_health_survey@gov.scot

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