Table 1.
European metropolitan areas and corresponding source survey data
| Metropolitan area | Survey area | Population (1000s)a | Men (56 853) | Women (69 080) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Glasgow | Greater Glasgowb,c | 1200 | 557 | 710 |
| Edinburgh | Lothianc | 800 | 473 | 605 |
| Greater London | North West/North Central/North East/South East/South West Londond | 7429 | 1763 | 2292 |
| Manchester-Liverpool | Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseysided | 2539 | 1357 | 1742 |
| West Midlands | Birmingham and the Black Country, West Midlands Southd | 3834 | 1005 | 1356 |
| West Yorkshire | West Yorkshired | 2108 | 580 | 778 |
| Tyne and Wear | Northumberland, Tyne and Weard | 1396 | 447 | 625 |
| Nottingham | Trentd | 2687 | 387 | 448 |
| South Yorkshire | South Yorkshired | 1278 | 485 | 608 |
| Portsmouth-Southampton | Hampshire and Isle of Wightd | 1801 | 843 | 1095 |
| Belfast | Eastern Northern Irelande | 1139 | 1887 | 2373 |
| Cardiff | Cardifff | 318 | 1012 | 1210 |
| Dublin | Dubling | 1187 | 525 | 974 |
| Malmö-Copenhagen | Scaniah | 283 | 12 237i | 14 806i |
| Stockholm | Stockholmj | 1975 | 14 112 | 17 008 |
| Oslo | Oslok | 573 | 8412 | 10 373 |
| Helsinki | Uusimaa and Itä-Uusimaal | 1484 | 399 | 498 |
| Brussels | Brusselsm | 1081 | 2573 | 3061 |
| Lille-Kortrijk | West Flandersn,o | 1130 | 630 | 654 |
| Antwerp | Antwerpn | 1683 | 1054 | 1127 |
| Madrid | Madridp | 6252 | 946 | 1052 |
| Barcelona | Barcelonap | 5330 | 755 | 783 |
| Valencia | Valenciap | 2268 | 420 | 451 |
| Seville | Sevillep | 1759 | 232 | 263 |
| Bilbao | Biscayp | 1330 | 349 | 362 |
| Rhine-Ruhr, Aachen, Liège, Maastricht, Bielefeld | North Rhein Westfaliaq | 18 075 | 836 | 932 |
| Berlin | Berlinq | 3400 | 173 | 217 |
| Hamburg | Hamburgq | 1735 | 73 | 126 |
| Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Half of Rhine Neckar Area | Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinateq | 12 444 | 518 | 576 |
| Stuttgart, Half of Rhine Neckar Area | Baden-Württembergq | 10 717 | 478 | 575 |
| Munich, Nuremberg | Bavariaq | 12 444 | 638 | 628 |
| Halle-Leipzig, Chemnitz-wickau, Dresden | Saxony, Saxony Anhaltq | 6583 | 272 | 334 |
| Bremen, Hanover | Bremen, Lower Saxonyq | 8664 | 425 | 438 |
a: Current total population estimates
b: Preceded the creation of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde from the split of NHS Argyll and Clyde in 2006
c: Health board in the Scottish Health Survey 2003 (response 67%)
d: Strategic health authority in the Health Survey for England 2002 (75%), 2003 (73%) and 2004 (72)
e: Health and social services board in the Northern Ireland Health and Wellbeing Survey 2001 (68%) and 2005 (66%)
f: Unitary authority in the Welsh Health Survey 2003 (74%) and 2004 (74%)
g: County (Republic of Ireland) in the Survey on Lifestyle and Nutrition 2002 (53%)
h: County (Sweden) in the Health Survey for Scania 2004 (58%)
i: Sex unknown thus imputed for 920 Scania individuals
j: County (Sweden) in the Stockholm Public Health Survey 2002 (63%)
k: County (Norway) in The Oslo Health Study 2001 (46%)
l: Region in Health Behaviour among the Finnish Adult Population Survey 2003 (67%)
m: Brussels-Capital Region in the Health Interview Survey Belgium 2004 (61%)
n: Province in the Health Interview Survey Belgium 2004 (61%)
o: The Lille-Kortrijk region spans France as well as Belgium; as the area covering Kortrijk, West Flanders is used as a proxy for the entire region
p: Province in the Spanish Health National Survey 2001 (85%)
q: State in the German Telephone Health Survey 2003 (60%)