Table 4.

Breakdown of severe mental illness diagnosis by ethnicity in secondary care database, 2007–2013

	Schizophrenia	Schizoaffective disorder	Bipolar affective disorder
	N = 6885	N = 1438	N = 4112
Ethnicity, n (%)
White British	2271 (33)	519 (36)	2033 (49)
‘Other’ white	473 (7)	93 (6)	376 (9)
Irish	141 (2)	37(3)	132 (3)
Indian	131 (2)	21 (1)	64 (2)
Pakistani	55 (0.1)	10 (0.7)	24 (0.6)
Bangladeshi	29 (0.4)	8 (0.6)	18 (0.4)
Black Caribbean	1004 (15)	173 (12)	255 (6)
Black African	926 (13)	194 (13)	273 (7)
‘Other’/Chinese	1472 (21)	284 (20)	606 (15)
Mixed ethnicity	97 (1)	22 (1.5)	48 (1)
Not stated/missing	286 (4)	71 (4.9)	257 (6)