Table 2.

Proportion of the population reporting limiting long-term illness and poor health (‘ill-health’), percentage of population providing 50+ hours care per week, percentage working in various healthcare professions, and unweighted and weighted correlations of those variables with ill health, England and Wales, 2001.

	Percentage of total population	Percentage female	Percentage in north	Correlation with ill health	P-value	Weighted correlationsa	P-value
Total population (n = 51 107 639)		51.3	44.4
Limiting long-term illness and poor health	7.6	54.2	53.8	1.0		1.0
Carers 50+hours unpaid per week	2.1	60.0	52.9	0.968	<0.001	0.961	<0.001
Working nurses	0.8	90.6	46.5	0.310	0.001	0.275	<0.001
Working medical practitioner	0.2	35.3	39.2	−0.219	0.022	00.171	<0.001
Working dentists	0.04	32.2	41.5	−0.415	<0.001	−0.414	<0.001
Other working health professionals and therapists	0.2	76.0	39.8	−0.480	<0.001	−0.598	<0.001

^aWeighted for population size in 2001. Units of analysis are county, unitary or former metropolitan authorities.