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The Scottish Health Survey 2011: Volume 1 - Adults

Annual report of the Scottish Health Survey for 2011. Volume focussing on adult health

Aged 16 and over with valid height, weight and waist measurements
2008-2011 combined

Health risk category^a	NS-SEC of household reference person
	Managerial & professional	Intermediate	Small employers & own account workers	Lower supervisory & technical	Semi-routine & routine
	%	%	%	%	%
Men
Not applicable	2.3	-	0.3	1.6	1.4
No increased	44.6	41.3	42.3	51.8	44.5
Increased	20.5	17.8	22.1	13.9	17.6
High	11.0	16.7	13.9	10.2	12.4
Very high	20.9	23.1	19.1	18.9	22.4
Extremely high	0.8	1.1	2.3	3.6	1.7
High/very high/extremely high risk	32.6	40.9	35.3	32.6	36.5
Very/extremely high risk	21.7	24.2	21.4	22.4	24.1
Women
Not applicable	1.8	1.6	2.9	2.0	1.8
No increased	43.7	32.6	41.8	34.9	32.6
Increased	13.5	19.0	13.0	16.3	13.5
High	18.1	16.1	19.5	15.2	21.2
Very high	20.7	24.6	19.1	28.0	26.4
Extremely high	2.3	6.2	3.7	3.6	4.5
High/very high/extremely high risk	41.0	46.8	42.4	46.9	52.1
Very/extremely high risk	22.9	30.8	22.8	31.6	30.9
Bases (weighted):
Men	798	143	170	229	494
Women	803	191	153	196	569
Bases (unweighted):
Men	710	119	159	216	458
Women	870	209	172	218	607

a Health risk category according to SIGN guidelines (115). See Table 7.5 for full details of the categories.

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