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. 2010 Mar 18;340:c877. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c877

Table 11.

 Six Cities Study: places where children use sunbeds by city* (weighted baseline = 673)

Overall No At home/friend’s home At tanning/beauty salon/gym/leisure centre with staff to help At tanning/beauty salon/gym/leisure centre without staff to help
No % (95% CI) No % (95% CI) No % (95% CI)
Liverpool 207 21 10.0 (5.9 to 14.1) 153 74.5 (68.5 to 80.4) 40 19.5 (14.1 to 25.0)
Stoke/Stafford 70 21 30.3 (19.5 to 41.1) 38 54.6 (43.0 to 66.3) 12 16.2 (7.6 to 24.9)
Sunderland 186 59 31.6 (24.9 to 38.2) 106 56.9 (49.8 to 64.0) 30 16.3 (11.0 to 21.6)
Bath/Gloucester 69 19 28.0 (17.3 to 38.6) 25 36.3 (24.9 to 47.7) 16 23.6 (13.5 to 33.6)
Oxford/Cambridge 78 18 23.2 (13.8 to 32.6) 39 49.9 (38.8 to 61.1) 13 16.4 (8.1 to 24.6)
Southampton 64 17 26.1 (15.4 to 36.9) 27 43.3 (31.2 to 55.4) 17 25.9 (15.2 to 36.6)

*Weighted numbers are rounded; respondents could select multiple options; 43 respondents (after weighting) said they “did not know” whether they used sunbed in place with or without supervision or at home.