Table 2.

Comparative rates of service usage.

Dataset domain	Data source	Mean in 5 years before baseline				Mean in 1 year before baseline
		Women		Men		Women		Men
		HF	ERP	HF	ERP	HF	ERP	HF	ERP
Health	Hospitalisations	3.8	1.1	2.5	0.8	0.8	0.2	0.7	0.2
	Maternity-related hospitalisations1	1.3	0.3	S	S	0.2	0.1	S	S
	Pharmaceutical dispensings	128.0	64.9	157.5	53.2	32.2	14.9	31.9	12.5
	Mental Health & Addiction - Outpatient events2	69.0	5.8	76.6	5.9	16.1	1.3	21.0	1.2
Justice	Police offences	2.2	0.1	5.6	0.5	0.4	<0.1	1.2	0.1
	Criminal charges, laid	1.8	0.1	5.5	0.5	0.3	<0.1	1.1	0.1
	Criminal charges, convicted	1.2	0.1	4.0	0.3	0.2	<0.1	0.8	<0.1
	Prison sentence, days	22.3	0.4	213.3	10.1	0.77	0.04	41.7	1.6
	Community Service sentence, days	95.6	5.0	214.8	26.7	28.3	0.9	44.6	10.5
Social Development and Tax	Months in which tax paid on wages and salaries	8.4	29.1	10.1	30.6	1.3	6.3	1.4	6.7
	Total income from wages and salaries	$18,886	$105,681	$23,953	$161,961	$2279	$23,999	$2645	$36,802
	Months in which a benefit was received	44.7	7.1	38.9	5.1	10.2	1.4	8.9	1.0
	Total income from benefit receipt	$56,829	$8222	$41,135	$5195	$13,557	$1692	$10,041	$1131
	New benefit spells	2.1	0.4	2.9	0.3	0.6	0.1	0.8	0.1

¹All hospitalisations with primary diagnosis classification of ‘Complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium’ or supplemental classifications V20–V39 (‘Persons encountering health services in circumstances relating to reproduction and development,’ ‘live-born infants according to type of birth’).

²Outpatient rates of mental health and addiction service usage have been found from a single source of national-level data about contacts, activities, and services for secondary-care mental health and addiction service providers.