Table 3. Risk ratios for the association between prioritisation declined and year, sex, age, ethnicity, deprivation and region for pooled first referrals from 2018 to 2022 (n=2,825,865).

	RR	SE	P value	95% CI
Year	1.041	0.001	0.000	1.039 to 1.044
Sex
Male	reference
Female	1.069	0.003	0.000	1.062 to 1.075
Age (years)
0–9	0.853	0.006	0.000	0.841 to 0.865
10–19	0.891	0.006	0.000	0.879 to 0.904
20–29	1.003	0.006	0.658	0.990 to 1.015
30–39	1.020	0.006	0.001	1.008 to 1.031
40–49	1.004	0.006	0.506	0.993 to 1.015
50–59	reference
60–69	0.992	0.005	0.112	0.981 to 1.002
70–79	0.995	0.005	0.387	0.985 to 1.006
80+	0.955	0.006	0.000	0.944 to 0.967
Ethnicity
NMNP	reference
Māori	0.817	0.003	0.000	0.810 to 0.824
Pacific	0.706	0.005	0.000	0.695 to 0.716
Deprivation level
1 (least deprived)	reference
2	1.007	0.005	0.161	0.997 to 1.017
3	1.005	0.005	0.297	0.995 to 1.015
4	1.003	0.005	0.553	0.993 to 1.013
5 (most deprived)	0.998	0.005	0.653	0.988 to 1.008
Region*
1	reference
2	2.021	0.016	0.000	1.989 to 2.053
3	2.202	0.019	0.000	2.166 to 2.239
4	1.477	0.013	0.000	1.453 to 1.502
5	0.047	0.001	0.000	0.044 to 0.050
6	1.085	0.014	0.000	1.058 to 1.113
7	2.679	0.022	0.000	2.637 to 2.721
8	1.361	0.021	0.000	1.322 to 1.402
9	3.162	0.025	0.000	3.114 to 3.211
10	2.071	0.018	0.000	2.036 to 2.107
11	1.485	0.013	0.000	1.460 to 1.510
12	1.023	0.015	0.126	0.994 to 1.054
13	1.780	0.024	0.000	1.733 to 1.828
14	1.513	0.015	0.000	1.485 to 1.542
15	2.660	0.018	0.000	2.625 to 2.696
16	0.477	0.019	0.000	0.441 to 0.515
17	2.699	0.018	0.000	2.664 to 2.736
18	1.888	0.027	0.000	1.835 to 1.942
19	2.702	0.030	0.000	2.644 to 2.761

^*Regional data have been anonymised.

NMNP, non-Māori/non-Pacific.