Table 5. Distribution of patients across ethnicity groups, categorised by sex and whether patient appears in high-cost drugs (HCD) dataset.
| Ethnicity
group |
In HCD dataset | Not in HCD dataset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number in
each age group |
% of total in
each age group |
Number in
each age group |
% of total in
each age group |
|
| Females | ||||
| Total | 101,596 | NA | 11,623,335 | NA |
| Asian | 4,978 | 4.9% | 700,909 | 6.0% |
| Black | 2,467 | 2.4% | 247,046 | 2.1% |
| Missing data | 23,373 | 23.0% | 2,891,214 | 24.9% |
| Mixed | 897 | 0.9% | 155,264 | 1.3% |
| Other | 1,270 | 1.3% | 228,596 | 2.0% |
| White | 68,611 | 67.5% | 7,400,306 | 63.7% |
| Males | ||||
| Total | 96,061 | NA | 11,640,791 | NA |
| Asian | 4,971 | 5.2% | 749,327 | 6.4% |
| Black | 2,238 | 2.3% | 247,208 | 2.1% |
| Missing data | 23,263 | 24.2% | 3,310,054 | 28.4% |
| Mixed | 900 | 0.9% | 150,515 | 1.3% |
| Other | 1,383 | 1.4% | 230,568 | 2.0% |
| White | 63,306 | 65.9% | 6,953,120 | 59.7% |