Table 3.
Uptake of breast and bowel screening by ethnicity (2000-02); numbers (row percentages)
| Ethnicity | Breast and bowel screening uptake | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breast & bowel | Breast only | Bowel only | Neither | Total | |||||
| Count | (%) | Count | (%) | Count | (%) | Count | (%) | Count | |
| South Asian | 1057 | (29.9) | 1430 | (40.4) | 143 | (4.0) | 909 | (25.7) | 3539 |
| Non-Asian | 40969 | (59.4) | 14091 | (20.4) | 4735 | (6.9) | 9232 | (13.4) | 69027 |
| Hindu-Gujarati | 230 | (35.8) | 267 | (41.6) | 22 | (3.4) | 123 | (19.2) | 642 |
| Hindu-Other | 113 | (32.3) | 144 | (41.1) | 12 | (3.4) | 81 | (23.1) | 350 |
| Muslim | 164 | (22.3) | 238 | (32.3) | 37 | (5.0) | 297 | (40.4) | 736 |
| Sikh | 534 | (30.4) | 762 | (43.4) | 67 | (3.8) | 391 | (22.3) | 1754 |
| South Asian Other | 16 | (28.1) | 19 | (33.3) | 5 | (8.8) | 17 | (29.8) | 57 |
| Total | 42026 | (57.9) | 15521 | (21.4) | 4878 | (6.7) | 10141 | (14.0) | 72566 |