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.

Supporting documents

Table 5.1 Prevalence of smoking (age-standardised¹), by equality group

Equality Group	Current smoker	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	26	25	27	12449	13637
Female	24	23	25	16180	14904
Age
16-24	27	25	30	2457	3830
25-34	31	29	33	3696	4404
35-44	29	27	30	4817	4982
45-54	27	26	29	5220	5164
55-64	24	23	25	5057	4409
65-74	16	15	18	4200	3192
75+	10	9	11	3182	2562
Sexual Orientation
Bisexual	27	20	35	230	236
Gay or Lesbian	28	21	36	195	201
Heterosexual	24	23	25	23984	24139
Other	36	27	44	265	252
Prefer not to answer	33	27	39	733	642
Disability
Limiting LI	34	33	36	8582	7668
Non-limiting LI	23	21	25	4537	4389
No LI	22	21	23	15505	16481
Religion
None	28	27	29	11159	11676
Church of Scotland	21	20	22	10038	9289
Roman Catholic	28	27	30	3832	4243
Other Christian	16	15	18	2788	2450
Muslim	16	10	23	215	269
Buddhist	19	6	31	63	65
Hindu	21	5	36	59	70
Other²	19	14	23	417	387
Ethnic Group
White, British	25	24	26	26884	26564
White, Irish	23	16	30	198	224
White, Other	24	19	28	780	814
Mixed	24	13	34	86	102
Asian, Indian	19	9	29	109	148
Asian, Pakistani	13	7	20	137	177
Asian, Chinese	11	0	25	74	82
Asian, Other	9	1	16	103	105
African, Caribbean or Black	17	6	29	115	130
Other	22	14	30	109	122
All Adults	25	24	26	28629	28540

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

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