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. 2011 Jun 13;6(6):e20837. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020837

Table 3. Demographic and language characteristics of patients seen.

Number of consultations nā€Š=ā€Š1008 n %
Gender
Female n (%) 610 60.5
Male 395 39.2
Not specified 3 0.3
Age, median (IQR) 35 (20 to 51)
Consultation time min, median (IQR) 10 (6 to 13)
First language
English 453 44.9
Urdu 192 19.1
Punjabi 118 11.7
Bengali/Bangla 79 7.8
Somali 35 3.5
Mirpuri 29 2.9
Arabic 26 2.6
Gujerati 15 1.5
Hindi 8 0.8
Hinko 5 0.5
Kurdish 4 0.4
Pushto 4 0.4
Farsi 3 0.3
French 3 0.3
Cantonese 2 0.2
Polish 2 0.2
Portuguese 2 0.2
Shona 2 0.2
Swahili 2 0.2
Telugu 2 0.2

N.B. Eighteen consultations were conducted in languages that were used just once inthe study. These were reported to be Edo, Ezzik, Finnish, Henko, Katchi, Lithuanian, Lunyoro, Malayalam, Mandarin, Marathi, Oriya/Hindi, Patois, Romanian, Spanish, Tamil, Tswana Zulu, Yerba and Yoruba. In 3 cases, the language was either not stated or ill-defined.