Table 2.

Sample size, frequency (in percentage) of GP and specialist visits in the 2 weeks before the interview and frequency (in percentage) of hospitalisation during the year before the interview: total and by three indicators of socioeconomic position

Measures of socioeconomic position	Sample size	GP visits		Specialist visits		Hospitalisation
		Public	Private	Public	Private	Public	Private
Total	18,837	18.8	1.0	5.0	1.9	6.9	1.0
Education
Tertiary	2,870	9.8	2.4	3.3	4.4	4.1	1.9
Upper secondary	4,335	13.3	1.1	4.4	2.4	4.6	0.9
Lower secondary	3,209	17.1	0.6	5.0	1.1	6.3	0.9
Primary/no education	8,423	26.8	0.4	6.1	1.0	9.8	0.7
Social classa
I–II	3,240	11.5	2.6	4.5	3.6	4.9	2.2
III	4,804	16.5	1.2	4.7	2.6	6.1	1.3
IV	5,665	22.0	0.5	5.7	1.2	7.7	0.6
V–VI	4,846	22.6	0.1	5.1	0.7	8.3	0.4
Monthly incomeb
More than 1800 euros	3,762	11.6	2.1	4.4	3.5	4.8	1.7
From 1201 to 1800 euros	3,756	16.7	0.9	4.8	1.9	5.9	1.2
From 901 to 1200 euros	3,756	18.6	0.6	5.4	1.2	7.1	0.6
Up to 900 euros	6,234	27.8	0.4	5.5	1.0	9.8	0.3

a. No social class could be assigned to 1.5% of those interviewed.

b. No category of monthly income could be assigned to 7% of those interviewed.