Table 5.
Associations between the use of emergency services in the general Spanish population aged 18–69 years, compared by age, according to the ENSE 2017.
| Men (n = 8238) | Women (n = 8961) | Total (n = 17,199) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Groups | Yes n (%) |
No n (%) |
p | Yes n (%) |
No n (%) |
p | Yes n (%) |
No n (%) |
p |
| 18–34 years (n = 3316) | 486 (30.9) a | 1087 (69.1) b | <0.001 | 673 (38.6) a | 1070 (61.4) b | <0.001 | 1159 (35.0) a | 2157 (65.0) b | <0.001 |
| 35–49 years (n = 6195) | 813 (27.0) a | 2194 (73.0) a | 977 (30.6) a | 2211 (69.4) a | 1790 (28.9) a | 4405 (71.1) a | |||
| 50–64 years (n = 5977) | 688 (23.9) a | 2186 (76.1) b | 865 (27.9) a | 2238 (72.1) b | 1553 (26.0) a | 4424 (74.0) b | |||
| 65–69 years (n = 1711) | 194 (24.7) a | 590 (75.3) a | 269 (29.0) a | 658 (71.0) a | 463 (27.1) a | 1248 (72.9) a | |||
| Total (n = 17,199) | 2181 (26.5) | 6057 (73.5) | 2784 (31.1) | 6177 (68.9) | 4965 (28.8) | 12,234 (71.2) | |||
Values presented in absolute and relative frequencies; n: number of participants; %: Percentage; Yes: used emergency services at least once in the last 12 months; No: did not use emergency services at least once in the last 12 months; p: p-value from chi-square test; a, b: Pairwise z-test for independent proportions. Each subscript corresponds to a subset whose column proportions do not differ from each other at the 0.05 level.