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. 2010 Dec 9;22(1):40–47. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckq170

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%)