Publication - Statistics

Scottish Health Survey - topic report: equality groups

Published: 30 October 2012
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781782561781

Topic report in the Scottish Health Survey series providing breakdowns of key health behaviours and outcomes by gender, age, ethnic group, religion, disability and sexual orientation.

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Table 2.3 Proportion of adults who scored 4 or more on the GHQ-12 questionnaire (age-standardised¹), by equality group

Equality Group	GHQ-12 4+	Lower Confidence Limit	Upper Confidence Limit	*Unweighted Bases*	*Weighted Bases*
Aged 16 and over				2008-2011 combined
Equality Group	%	%	%	*Unweighted Bases*	*Weighted Bases*
Sex
Male	12	12	13	11330	12498
Female	17	16	18	14885	13719
Age
16-24	15	13	17	2350	3670
25-34	15	13	16	3437	4080
35-44	16	14	17	4505	4652
45-54	18	17	19	4861	4803
55-64	14	13	15	4661	4049
65-74	10	9	12	3791	2869
75+	14	12	15	2610	2095
Sexual Orientation
Bisexual	23	16	29	228	235
Gay or Lesbian	16	10	21	192	199
Heterosexual	15	14	15	23626	23844
Other	19	12	25	260	248
Prefer not to answer	15	11	20	699	615
Disability
Limiting LI	30	29	32	7608	6814
Non-limiting LI	11	10	13	4214	4083
No LI	9	9	10	14389	15317
Religion
None	15	14	16	10394	10911
Church of Scotland	14	13	15	9122	8454
Roman Catholic	17	16	19	3424	3818
Other Christian	14	12	16	2574	2267
Muslim	23	14	32	176	224
Buddhist	12	3	22	55	58
Hindu	7	0	13	56	67
Other²	18	14	23	386	359
Ethnic Group
White, British	15	14	15	24674	24449
White, Irish	17	11	24	183	209
White, Other	15	10	20	692	728
Mixed	13	5	21	85	102
Asian, Indian	14	7	21	103	142
Asian, Pakistani	23	10	36	110	147
Asian, Chinese	10	3	17	63	64
Asian, Other	10	4	16	90	93
African, Caribbean or Black	18	9	27	101	116
Other	25	14	36	98	112
All Adults	15	14	15	26215	26217

¹ Analyses are age-standardised for all equality groups except age.
² Other religion includes Sikh, Jewish and Pagan.

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