Table 1.
Percent distributions and mean (sd) for individual and practice variables by SEURC
| SEURC1 | PC% | US% | AST% | RST% | RRST% | AR% | RR% | VRR% | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | 5427 | 4900 | 1757 | 434 | 296 | 1649 | 548 | 645 | 15668 |
| Age (sd) | 42.06 (14.9) | 42.62 (14.9) | 43.35 (15.1) | 45.01 (15.5) | 43.25 (15.1) | 43.95 (14.5) | 44.48 (14.9) | 45.11 (14.7) | 42.90 (14.9) |
| Female | 56.4 | 55.9 | 54.1 | 59.0 | 53.7 | 55.1 | 49.3 | 54.3 | 0.56 |
| Social class | |||||||||
| professional | 5.3 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 4.0 |
| intermediate | 24.6 | 20.9 | 23.6 | 21.8 | 18.4 | 30.9 | 30.5 | 30.0 | 24.3 |
| Skilled non-manual | 24.2 | 23.8 | 22.2 | 21.3 | 23.9 | 19.9 | 16.8 | 21.7 | 23.0 |
| Skilled manual | 19.9 | 22.8 | 23.3 | 21.6 | 25.7 | 21.8 | 21.6 | 22.3 | 21.7 |
| Partly-skilled | 16.7 | 20.3 | 18.5 | 19.9 | 17.6 | 15.8 | 19.1 | 14.6 | 18.0 |
| unskilled | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 10.4 | 11.0 | 6.5 | 6.6 | 8.5 | 8.1 |
| House tenure | |||||||||
| own | 57.4 | 63.2 | 63.6 | 59.4 | 59.8 | 66.2 | 65.8 | 70.2 | 61.7 |
| public | 34.7 | 33.0 | 32.5 | 35.5 | 33.8 | 18.8 | 14.3 | 18.6 | 30.9 |
| private | 6.8 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 9.2 | 11.2 | 6.5 | 5.4 |
| others | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 5.9 | 8.8 | 4.7 | 2.0 |
| Health outcomes | |||||||||
| Hypertensive | 14.4 | 14.7 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 20.0 | 16.5 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 15.1 |
| All-cause death | 6.4 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 7.1 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 6.0 |
| CHD admissions | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
| Hospital stays2 | 47.0 | 50.0 | 47.0 | 46.0 | 55.0 | 44.0 | 47.0 | 51.0 | 48.2 |
| Practice char | |||||||||
| wtegps1 | 4.74 | 11.2 | 8.6 | 8.7 (6.4) | 5.55 | 7.78 | 9.6 | 9.4 | 8.01 |
| 0003 (sd) | (19.4) | (73.5) | (40.0) | (3.6) | (41.0) | (17.5) | (22.5) | (47.1) | |
| Gpage | 42.66 | 42.84 | 43.12 | 41.36 | 41.06 | 42.52 | 42.13 | 43.09 | 42.68 |
| (sd) | (4.7) | (4.3) | (4.4) | (4.1) | (4.5) | (4.4) | (3.7) | (5.8) | (4.54) |
1 SEURC Scottish Executive Urban Rural Classification, PC Primary Cities, US Urban Settlements, AST Accessible Small Towns, RST Remote Small Towns, VRST Very Remote Small Towns, AR Accessible Rural, RR Remote Rural, VRR Very Remote Rural. 2 At least one day or more hospital stays 3, WTE GPs per 1000 Whole Time Equivalent GPs per 1000 population