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Table 1 Percent distributions and mean (sd) for individual and practice variables by SEURC

From: Is the health of people living in rural areas different from those in cities? Evidence from routine data linked with the Scottish Health Survey

SEURC1

PC%

US%

AST%

RST%

RRST%

AR%

RR%

VRR%

TOTAL

N

5427

4900

1757

434

296

1649

548

645

15668

Age (sd)

42.06 (14.9)

42.62 (14.9)

43.35 (15.1)

45.01 (15.5)

43.25 (15.1)

43.95 (14.5)

44.48 (14.9)

45.11 (14.7)

42.90 (14.9)

Female

56.4

55.9

54.1

59.0

53.7

55.1

49.3

54.3

0.56

Social class

         

professional

5.3

3.1

2.6

3.5

3.3

4.2

4.8

2.1

4.0

intermediate

24.6

20.9

23.6

21.8

18.4

30.9

30.5

30.0

24.3

Skilled non-manual

24.2

23.8

22.2

21.3

23.9

19.9

16.8

21.7

23.0

Skilled manual

19.9

22.8

23.3

21.6

25.7

21.8

21.6

22.3

21.7

Partly-skilled

16.7

20.3

18.5

19.9

17.6

15.8

19.1

14.6

18.0

unskilled

8.3

8.2

8.3

10.4

11.0

6.5

6.6

8.5

8.1

House tenure

         

own

57.4

63.2

63.6

59.4

59.8

66.2

65.8

70.2

61.7

public

34.7

33.0

32.5

35.5

33.8

18.8

14.3

18.6

30.9

private

6.8

2.9

3.1

4.1

4.1

9.2

11.2

6.5

5.4

others

1.2

0.9

0.8

0.9

2.4

5.9

8.8

4.7

2.0

Health outcomes

         

Hypertensive

14.4

14.7

16.0

13.0

20.0

16.5

15.5

16.5

15.1

All-cause death

6.4

6.1

5.8

7.1

5.7

5.9

4.2

4.2

6.0

CHD admissions

4.0

4.5

4.0

3.0

4.0

4.0

4.0

4.4

4.1

Hospital stays2

47.0

50.0

47.0

46.0

55.0

44.0

47.0

51.0

48.2

Practice char

         

wtegps1

4.74

11.2

8.6

8.7 (6.4)

5.55

7.78

9.6

9.4

8.01

0003 (sd)

(19.4)

(73.5)

(40.0)

 

(3.6)

(41.0)

(17.5)

(22.5)

(47.1)

Gpage

42.66

42.84

43.12

41.36

41.06

42.52

42.13

43.09

42.68

(sd)

(4.7)

(4.3)

(4.4)

(4.1)

(4.5)

(4.4)

(3.7)

(5.8)

(4.54)

  1. 1 SEURC Scottish Executive Urban Rural Classification, PC Primary Cities, US Urban Settlements, AST Accessible Small Towns, RST Remote Small Towns, VRST Very Remote Small Towns, AR Accessible Rural, RR Remote Rural, VRR Very Remote Rural. 2 At least one day or more hospital stays 3, WTE GPs per 1000 Whole Time Equivalent GPs per 1000 population