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Table 2 Self-reported nationality of presenting patients

From: Impact on and use of health services by international migrants: questionnaire survey of inner city London A&E attenders

Self-reported nationality

Number of patients n (%)

British/English/Irish/Northern Irish

860 (57.7)

Australian

126 (8.5)

Polish

59 (4.0)

New Zealander

49 (3.3)

South African

44 (3.0)

Italian

31 (2.1)

French

25 (1.7)

Spanish, American

21 (1.4)*

Somali

13 (0.9)

Portuguese, Japanese

12 (0.8)*

Brazilian, Iranian

10 (0.7)*

Canadian, Indian

9 (0.6)*

German

8 (0.5)

Czechoslovakian, Chinese, Dutch, Hungarian, Afghan

7 (0.5)*

Jamaican, Nigerian, Greek, Iraqi, "European"

6 (0.4)*

Filipino, Turkish

5 (0.3)*

Yugoslavian, Algerian, Mauritanian, Swedish, Moroccan

4 (0.3)*

Belgian, Colombian, Sri Lankan, Lithuanian, Ethiopian,

3 (0.2)*

Albanian, "African", Serbian, Swiss, Venezuelan, Gambian, Pakistani, Malaysian, Zimbabwean, Palestinian, Kosovan, Finnish, Korean, Bulgarian

2 (0.1)*

Cypriot, Ghanaian, "Asian", Bahamian, Kazak, Saudi Arabian, Sudanese, Indonesian, Syrian, Macedonian, Romanian, Jordanian, Nepalese, Grenadian, Tongan, Taiwanese, Austrian, Mongolian, Croatian, Egyptian, Ivorian, Barbadian, Maltese, Ecuadorian, Bangladeshi, Ukrainian, Thai, Angolan, Guyanese, Mexican, Zambian, Norwegian, Danish, Kurdish

1 (0.1)*

Total named nationalities: 87

1491 (100%)$

  1. *Data are n (%), which equates to the number of patients from each named country in the first column. $ 120 of 1611 respondents did not answer this specific question.
  2. Patients who reported their nationality non-specifically as "Asian" (n = 1), "African"(n = 2) or "European" (n = 6) were analysed in the OM group.